With libraries around the world coming under almost as much threat of demise as brick - and - mortar bookstores, one UK library system is taking legal action to fight back against
proposed budget cuts in their county that will mean the planned closing of a number of local public libraries.
Italian scientists are up in arms over
proposed budget cuts at over a dozen national research institutes as part of a spending review announced on 6 July that will strike $ 26 billion from the national government's budget.
Mars Attacked: Planetary Scientists Vent Frustrations
over Proposed Budget Cuts The field is bristling at cutbacks, proposed last month by the Obama administration, to planetary science and especially to NASA's program of robotic Mars explorers
In addition, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found that 59 percent of
currently proposed budget cuts would come from programs serving low - to moderate - income populations.
Indeed, Trump's
proposed budget cuts funding for the Environmental Protection Agency by 31 %, and specifically eliminates measures designed to preserve clean air and water and ward off climate change — including Obama - era legislation amending the longstanding Clean Air Act and creating what is literally known as the Clean Water Rule.
Trump's
proposed budget cuts spending on EPA administration, which could lead to significant delays for the canal cleanup, Lander and Schneiderman said.
«With President Trump's
proposed budget cuts going after the most vulnerable New Yorkers, and his tax bill targeting our economy, it's absolutely critical that New York City prepare today for whatever comes tomorrow.
A coalition of more than 100 nonprofit community service organizations is urging New York's congressional delegation to
reject proposed budget cuts to food stamps, Medicaid and other social programs.
But the issue took up the lion's share of time in a grilling of the mayor that lasted nearly five hours, as lawmakers made the argument that city should enact a cap in exchange for the Legislature's willingness to protect the city
from proposed budget cuts that could cost the city $ 1 billion in the coming fiscal year.
Many of the
original proposed budget cuts in County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef's budget have been restored under the legislature's plan, including over $ 1 million for the Narcotics Task Force and Sheriff's Transport Unit respectively.
Far from endorsing the tax cap, most speakers at the sparsely attended public hearing urged the board to
forgo proposed budget cuts or, in certain cases, even increase spending.
Rep. Paul Tonko (D - Amsterdam) was a chief critic,
lashing proposed budget cuts, staff reductions and what he said was overall mismanagement and abuse at the agency that will ultimately weaken public health.
Lame - duck Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos tried to call his body to an up - or - down vote on the governor's
proposed budget cuts today, confident that they would fail.
But several of the most promising state charter school proposals already before the State Department of Education would never see the light of day if the committee's
proposed budget cuts won out.
One candidate, Anne Sales, was chosen for a new endowed, tenured faculty chair in nursing and is said to have
cited proposed budget cuts.
Although the final numbers are still being debated, the state's
recent proposed budget cuts as reported by the CT Mirror include almost $ 24 million from the Office of Early Childhood and the departments of Social Services, Mental Health and Addiction Services, Public Health, and Children and Families.
Graphic novels An estimated 200 students, faculty and community members gathered Saturday at the College of Charleston in South Carolina to
protest proposed budget cuts to that school and...
As many of you are surely aware, our gardens and other living museums are imperiled by
proposed budgets cuts at the state and federal level.
In Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory eliminated 350 jobs in 2017, although it's unclear how much of that had to do
with proposed budget cuts.
In another bit of online advocacy: the Wildlife Conservation Society is hoping that a weeping lion can help get New Yorkers to care
about proposed budget cuts to the city's cultural institutions.
Tillerson pushed back against criticism
of proposed budget cuts to the State Department's budget last month, arguing that the department was simply «leaning in.»
Macron's
proposed budget cuts have already dented his approval ratings.
Washington (CNN)- In the final hours of budget negotiations, a growing list of Congressional members are joining former Rep. Tony Hall and over 36,000 participants in a hunger fast to protest what they say are
proposed budget cuts that would affect those living in poverty in the U.S. and abroad.
Just days after NYSUT launched a multi-million dollar TV ad campaign in opposition to the governor's
proposed budget cuts, the Alliance for Quality Education is out with a web video featuring a famous New Yorker.
At noon, the #NoCuts Coalition, an alliance of dozens of grass - roots groups, civic organizations, faith leaders and labor unions rally against the Trump administration's
proposed budget cuts to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 26 Federal Plaza, Manhattan.
GOWANUS — President Donald Trump's
proposed budget cuts would undo decades of progress toward cleaning the toxin - riddled Gowanus Canal and send New York back to the «bad old days of choking smog and rampant pollution,» state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Tuesday.