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Schwarzenegger Seeks Rule Changes on Mandates and Social Programs To Ease $21 Billion Budget Gap

13 hours ago ago from Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

California is back in the hole and digging deeper. It is now $21 billion in the hole again and digging deeper every day. In response to the growing problem, Schwarzenegger Seeks Obama’s Help for Deficit Relief California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, anticipating a $21 billion state budget deficit, plans to ask President Barack Obama to ease mandates and minimums on social programs to save as much as $8 billion. The Republican ...

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California Asks Rest of Nation’s Taxpayers to Help Pay for Its Unbalanced Budget

18 hours ago ago from Phil's Favorites - By Ilene

California Asks Rest of Nation's Taxpayers to Help Pay for Its Unbalanced Budget Courtesy of Trader Mark at Fund My Mutual Fund I have not had time to post some recent data on the growing chasm between public and private worker pay in the US, but I still plan to do it as this is a theme we've been pounding the table on since blog inception in 07 [ Dec 16, 2007: California in a State of Fiscal Emergency - Coming to a Theater Near You ...

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Government-Run Health Care Works So Well!

4 hours ago ago from Advice Goddess Blog

Government-Run Health Care Works So Well! That's why Obama is chomping at the bit to force so much more of it on us. In The New York Times , Nicholas Confessore writes about how well Medicaid has been working in New York State: New York's Medicaid system, the state's largest single expense, lost at least $92 million to improper payments, billing errors and poor recordkeeping during the last five years, according to several audits released ...

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California, Small Business Financing, Bailout, Citi, Auto Industry and More

13 hours ago ago from Mary Jo Kilroy Finance

Ilya Bodner asked: Everywhere you look people are talking about layoffs, bailouts, and the horrible economy that we are in.  Is this going to stop?  The bigger question is whether the bailout proposals are going to work?! For that we put up a blog, for regular people like you and I to put up our opinions on this bailout situation www.bailoutopinion.com.  Take a look at www.bailoutopinion.com and put up your story, let's see if we have ...

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Illinois No. 5 in population, Census says

19 hours ago ago from Chicago Multi Family Real Estate

(AP) — Illinois ranks as the fifth most populous state in America, according to a federal count. New Census Bureau figures show Illinois has 12.9 million people. That puts us behind California, the most populous state with 37 million, followed by Texas, with 24.8 million; New York with ...

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Wash. governor wants to lessen carbon footprint

21 hours ago ago from U.S. News

Wash. governor wants to lessen carbon footprint OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire wants state government to be carbon-neutral by 2020, and announced the Department of Ecology would be the first agency to start enacting measures to lessen its carbon footprint. Gregoire said she has asked the head of Ecology to develop business practices and strategies toward that goal and to act as a model for other agencies, as well as ...

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Oklahoma sets unemployment claims record in 2009

20 hours ago ago from U.S. News

Oklahoma sets unemployment claims record in 2009 OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Oklahoma has paid out more than $575 million in unemployment claims so far this year, a record as the number of jobless in the state remains near a 21-year high, a spokesman for the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission said Wednesday. Spokesman John Carpenter said that last week, the state paid $23.72 million in benefits on 74,814 jobless claims, down slightly from ...

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