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Why Utah should expect ongoing drops in federal funding

Posted on March 21, 2013 by

Tweet With sequestration now in place, federal funding for low-income and special education students, national defense (read: Hill Air Force Base), and for local government programs and services will be decreasing, with impacts which have yet to materialize. The impacts … Continue reading →

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The brutal politics of sequestration

Posted on February 27, 2013 by

Tweet The following post is a transcript of a 4-minute weekly radio commentary aired on several Utah radio stations: In December 1995, just one year after the Gingrich Revolution when Republicans captured the House and Senate in the 1994 mid-term … Continue reading →

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Interim Day: Grim impact of fed spending cuts on schoolchildren

Posted on September 21, 2012 by

Tweet At the Education Interim Committee on Capitol Hill this week, the committee heard a presentation about the potential impact of the pending federal sequestration policy on Utah’s public school and higher education systems. The sequestration policy would be enacted … Continue reading →

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