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Ready to fight S.F. school cuts

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
California's statewide day of action on March 4. At our union meeting, Garcia proposed a slew of cuts to make up for a whopping $113 million shortfall in the school's budget over the next two years. Given that the entire operating budget for the schools

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FACTBOX-Key risks to watch in Spain

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
MADRID, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Spain is struggling to convince debt markets that it can make the painful cuts and reforms necessary to cut its fiscal deficit from 11.4 percent of GDP in 2009 to the EU limit of 3 percent by 2013. Following are key risks that

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Parents to protest school cuts

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
Dozens of DeKalb County parents are scheduled to complain about proposed school budget cuts at tonights board meeting. The district is facing a $56 million shortfall and has proposed slashing teachers pay, along with school programs. Pre-kindergarten

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TCAPS Board to Vote on Budget Cuts

Monday, February 8th, 2010
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faces some difficult decisions tonight when its school board will vote on more than six million dollars in cuts for next year. The Budget Task Force has been formulating a list of recommendations since last August. Topping the list of recommendations

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Des Moines reveals budget plans: More job cuts; hiring freezes

Monday, February 8th, 2010
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Three more job cuts and hiring freezes in the Des Moines police and fire departments will help trim another $1.9 million from the city budget. The job cuts include an assistant city manager

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Barnett leaves Chats amid wage cuts

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
Lee Barnett has left Chatham Town following the club?s decision to cut the squad?s wage budget. The striker, a former youth player at Queens Park Rangers, joined in the middle of last season and went on to finish the club?s top scorer. His form

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Make an informed decision (93)

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
going. I positively choke when I get my W-2 and see how much has been withheld from my salary. But I feel differently about paying taxes to the city. While I might not always agree with everything the City Council does (Ask me about IKEA ending up in

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Commuters Begin Dealing With CTA Cuts

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
Buses and trains will be more crowded Monday as CTA cuts get their first rush-hour test. The transit agency laid off 1,000 workers and cut service on 119 bus routes and seven rail lines. Marathon talks between the union and

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More

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
in the number of school districts absorbing deeper-than-required spending cuts implies an attitude change toward spending limits in light of financial turmoil. The state of Wisconsin caps how much money districts can raise from local property taxes based

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Budget cuts could force universities to shut campuses

Monday, February 8th, 2010
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Devastating cuts to the higher education budget will force some of Britain's top universities to close entire campuses and get rid of hundreds of staff, according to reports

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Portugal: Public sector workers protest pay freeze

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
Last Friday, tens of thousands of Portugal?s public sector workers demonstrated in Lisbon against a planned wage freeze. The protest was called by the Common Front union. ?There has to be a pay rise,? said Nuno Amaral, a computer engineer from

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Kids deserve more than they will get after schools make cuts: Parma Sun Post Letter to the Editor

Monday, February 8th, 2010
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various clubs, or a challenging class. Unfortunately, these things will no longer exist in the Parma schools. The cuts and proposed cuts have reduced the district to offering barely the minimum in curriculum, and full pay-to-play for sports (meaning

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APC BackUPS BE700G

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
supply) is always a good idea, especially if you live in an area that's prone to power cuts or outages. If your mains electricity supply cuts out, the UPS takes over and powers your equipment from its internal battery

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Obama’s 2011 Budget

Monday, February 8th, 2010
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percent of GDP before rising again in 2015. To accomplish this feat, he proposes letting the Bush tax cuts expire and other spending cuts the Congress has rejected in the past. More extraordinary, though, the document assumes that real GDP grows at

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House Democrats Face Uphill Battle On Ending Tax Cuts

Monday, February 8th, 2010
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more than $250,000. Centrists and liberal Democrats told The Hill they support allowing President Bush's tax cuts on those making more than $250,000 to expire, but said leaders must win public support by portraying the tax increase as reducing the

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TNT workers take firm to tribunal over pay cuts

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
PARCEL delivery firm TNT is being taken to an employment tribunal by almost 200 angry staff over drastic cuts to their pay. The Coventry Telegraph has learned that solicitors have been appointed to act for outraged workers at two north Warwickshire

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Financial turmoil for school budget

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
in the number of school districts absorbing deeper-than-required spending cuts implies an attitude change toward spending limits in light of financial turmoil. The state of Wisconsin caps how much money districts can raise from local property taxes based

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Nevada Could Lay Off Every Worker In State Government, And Still Its Budget Would Be In The Loss

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
on. It will be left to the state Assembly and Senate to tackle painful education and social services cuts. "Nevadans need to get used to the idea of shrinking state government," said Gibbons' spokesman Daniel Burns. Senate Majority Leader Steven

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Are You Still Working on That?

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
ashes are worthless. Production means the creation of economic value. When someone plants a seed, grows a tree, cuts it, and sells the logs for firewood, he creates something of value to others. The barber who cuts you hair produces a service with value.

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Coventry News: TNT workers take firm to tribunal over pay cuts

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
PARCEL delivery firm TNT is being taken to an employment tribunal by almost 200 angry staff over drastic cuts to their pay. The Coventry Telegraph has learned that solicitors have been appointed to act for outraged workers at two north Warwickshire

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Baywa plans more buys to boost green unit

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
Chief executive Klaus Josef Lutz also told Reuters Insider TV in an interview he was unperturbed by pending cuts in solar industry subsidies in Germany on which some of his new acquisitions rely, as the cuts had been anticipated. 'We don't see a

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State ends free mammograms; cuts to be protested

Monday, February 8th, 2010
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advocates, health care professionals, breast cancer survivors and consumers will be in Sacramento today to discuss and protest cuts to the statewide Every Woman Counts program, which provided free mammograms to underserved women. On Jan. 1, the state

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Unions Threaten More Strikes Against Greek Govt

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
have angered Greece's powerful unions. 'We are fighting so that the working people don't get to pay for the crisis,' public sector union ADEDY said in a statement ahead of a news conference to outline their demands. 'We demand a pay increase ... a fair

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Medicaid cuts to further pinch ailing providers

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
Local hospitals are bracing for a round of Medicaid spending cuts that executives say could be the worst in decades and lead to more cutbacks in their organizations. Rising health care costs and a surge in the number of Medicaid patients

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Greece faces strikes on deficit plan

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
have angered Greece's powerful unions. 'We are fighting so that the working people don't get to pay for the crisis,' public sector union ADEDY said in a statement ahead of a news conference to outline their demands. 'We demand a pay increase ... a fair

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Lyon County manager meets with department heads about ‘10-11 budgets

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
Cuts, at least initially, are being requested from Lyon County department heads, who met earlier this week to discuss their budgets with County Manager Dennis Stark and Comptroller Josh Foli as

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E*TRADE (ETFC) Cuts Trading to $9.99 or Less, Eliminates Account Activity Fees

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
Visit StreetInsider.com at http://www.streetinsider.com/Corporate+New...es/5316192.html for the full story.

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Greece readies tax change for crisis

Monday, February 8th, 2010
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000) threshold. In an interview in Ta Nea newspaper, Papaconstantinou also insisted that middle- and low-income earners would pay less tax. Papaconstantinou hopes to raise nearly euro4 billion in extra taxes this year, and an additional euro1.2 billion

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Cuts will ?hit the vulnerable worst?

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
and public safety minister Michael McGimpsey (pictured) has warned that vulnerable groups will be hit hardest by further cuts in his budget. He said frontline services would be hit by a further £113m in efficiency savings; cuts of £700m have already

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Chancellor’s pay-raise challenged by students

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
the state, and this qualified her for a $19,700 raise during a time of severe district budget cuts. Serrano was making $262,750 a year before gaining this raise, which she herself personally requested from the board. However, when other districts were

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Couric’s job safe, despite ratings

Monday, February 8th, 2010
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CBS News chief Sean McManus said last week that it's unfair to criticize Katie Couric's multimillion-dollar salary at a time news division jobs are being cut and that he expected the evening news anchor to stay at the network "for a long time." Although

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Solar sector needs defense to German cuts-EPIA

Monday, February 8th, 2010
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Europe's solar industry should prepare to defend its lucrative market in Germany without becoming protectionist as incentive cuts loom there, the head of the world's largest photovoltaic industry association said. Feed-in tariffs --the prices utilities

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Bonuses Canceled, Swedish Bank Raises Salaries

Monday, February 8th, 2010
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the lender based in Stockholm, is backtracking in the face of employee uproar. The bank will increase the salary of some employees, compensating for the cuts in variable remuneration, or bonuses, according the Web site of the Swedish financial daily

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Norfolk children’s charities hit by £1m of council cuts

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
been left in shock after being told they have fallen victim to £1m worth of children's services cuts

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Riders to feel steep CTA cuts Monday

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
41 other routes. The CTA is also cutting 1,057 jobs and closing the 102-year-old Archer Garage. The cuts were needed to make up a $95 million budget deficit, which the agency blames on low sales tax and property transfer tax revenues. Riders will start

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Des Moines to reveal plans for $3 million in cuts

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
Another round of cuts will be unveiled today to help resolve historic budget troubles at Des Moines City Hall.The city faces projected shortfalls in excess of $11 million over the next two budget

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Council boss takes pay cut

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
DEVON'S top civil servant is to take a 5 per cent pay cut ? putting his salary a fraction under a £150,000-a-year limit that would require him to justify his pay to ministers. Dr Phil Norrey, chief executive of Devon County

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University president should not be given so much compensation amid budget cuts

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
Finance and Administrative Services at CMU from December 2002 to March 2007. But the issue goes beyond the salary. Besides having a university-provided house, Ross will receive $10,000 a year for furnishings, a bonus of up to 20 percent each year if

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Reserve Bank has done the right thing by working families by keeping rates on hold

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
$280,000 home loan. Ms Burrow said many families were struggling with these increased costs as well as cuts to their income through the loss of working hours or unemployment during the economic slowdown. âThe Bank has acted with appropriate caution by

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Still no audit for WAPD cuts

Monday, February 8th, 2010
By Pay Cuts
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