What is sequestration? How could it affect kids?
Our newsletter this week tackled “sequestration,” a congressional plan for massive federal spending cuts that could affect programs children depend on. You can sign up for our newsletter by entering your email address under “Stay Informed” on the homepage.
This newsletter often picks a single topic, like food assistance, and talks about how it could come under congressional attack. This week we turn to “sequestration,” a congressional plan to slash funding from many programs at once, including some that children depend on.
Remember last fall, when we faced a national crisis over the debt ceiling? In the deal Congress finally made, it agreed to compromise on the federal budget or else cut spending automatically across the board – that “or else” is sequestration. The congressional “super committee” was tasked with finding the compromise that would save the federal budget from the messy, indiscriminate knifework that sequestration implied.
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August 6, 2012 at 2:04 am by GaryI would not give freedom to a sligne person on earth because humans do not know what is good or bad, what is right or wrong, and even if some of them know, they don’t care for truth or justice as long as they profit from exploiting others (their countrymen or some other people from another nation or religion or race etc.) And you have the cowards who would not stand up for anybody or even themselves. That is why people need to be controled freedom will never be when USA exists.
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