Sequestration Could Jack Up the Price of Meat
The sequester had Washington, D.C on edge last week, with likely cuts threatening to put countless federal employees out of work. That includes a large majority concentrated in the D.C. area. While the...
View ArticleSequestration Could Put Nearly One Million Defense Employees on Furlough
If you're a civilian employee working for the Defense Department, you've been put on notice. The sequester is very real and it's extremely likely you are going to feel the effects of it soon. About...
View ArticleThe Problem With Saying Everyone Is The Problem
Some of the coverage of the sequestration has been characterized as a "pox on both their houses" attitude towards the Democrats and Republicans who are, once again, inching us closer to the edge....
View ArticleThe Latest Federal Budget Crisis, Predicting the Oscars, and More
Why federal budget crises seem to happen every month, covering the Vatican from a world away, and using election prediction models to forecast the winners of the 85th Academy Awards.
View ArticleSlate: The Sequestering Obama's Golf Game Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Austerity approaches, SCOTUS considers campaign contributions and the president putts in private.
View ArticleJon Meacham on Sequester Season
The President and Congress are locked in a debate over the effects of the so-called "sequester," with Obama warning of dire consequences and Republicans more and more comfortable with the idea of the...
View ArticleAutomatic Federal Cuts Would Hit Sandy Aid
The cuts in federal spending called for by the debt ceiling deal between the Republican-controlled Congress and President Obama in 2011 are set to take effect Friday and without some last minute...
View ArticleHoboken Mayor; They Might Be Giants; Oscars Recap
Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer talks about how to protect the city from future disasters similar to Superstorm Sandy. Plus: Steven Dennis from Roll Call on the latest from Washington; They Might Be Giants...
View ArticleSequester Cuts Would Mean Millions Lost in Education Funds
New York and New Jersey stand to lose millions in education funds if sequester cuts go into effect on March 1, and already-strapped school districts will be left to trim their budgets for the 2013-2014...
View ArticleSequester Meets Sandy
WNYC's Bob Hennelly discusses how the automatic spending sequester cuts will affect local services, including some of the money slated for Sandy relief.As @bobhwnyc points out, sequester isn't a...
View ArticleSequester Cuts Felt in American Classrooms
Those automatic spending cuts, known in Washington and beyond as the "sequester," just won't go away. And unless Congress stops it from happening, the "sequester" will kick in this Friday.Factory...
View ArticleToday's Takeaway | February 28, 2013
Does the Sequester Represent a Dysfunctional Budget Process? | Cutting Federal Programs A Good Thing for Individual States: A Case Study | The Secrets Process of Picking a Pope | Cold War Musical Envoy...
View ArticleLive Chat: Explaining the Looming Sequester
Sequestration is pretty simple on the surface — it's basically a set of scheduled budget cuts — but the details behind it, and the potential effects, are complicated. In an effort to shed some light on...
View ArticleStock Market Rises as Sequester Looms
A month ago, the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 14,000 for the first time since 2007, and it has continued to hover around that mark. At the same time, the economy is limping along, and the...
View ArticleSequester; Poverty in New York; LIPA; Solo Twin
Slate's Fred Kaplan discusses why the sequester is worse for the military than you might think. Plus: Whether LIPA should be public or private; Verizon coverage post-Sandy; poverty and the Mayor's...
View ArticleWashington Braces for Sequestration
Today's deadline for a deal on the sequester is expected to come and go without an agreement between Congress and President Obama. Tensions are high, with House Speaker John Boehner calling on Senate...
View ArticleSequester Hits
Fred Kaplan, War Stories columnist for Slate and author of The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War, talks about the sequester's dramatic impact on the military.
View ArticleAre Manufactured Crises the New Norm?
First the fiscal cliff, and now the sequester. Manufactured crises are becoming commonplace in Washington, while voices outside the capital are calling for compromise and an end to the gridlock. Should...
View ArticleThe Great Sequester and Basketball Diplomacy
The sequester — $85 billion in across the board spending cuts — has begun. In this week's Washington Report, David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, talks to Kerry Nolan...
View ArticleLow-Income Mayoral Concerns; HIV Cure?; Threat to O.J.
Washington’s budget woes continue. A.B. Stoddard of The Hill talks about the latest in national politics. Then, Westchester Country Executive Rob Astorino on how to stop gun violence. Plus: a new study...
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