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HNR: Pressure Mounts to Cut FY 2011 Domestic Appropriations; Senate Labor-HHS-Ed Bill Approved in Full Committee (8/11/10) CBPP: Update on Budget Cuts--46 States Have Imposed Cuts That Hurt the Economy and Vulnerbale Families (8/4/10) Op-Ed by Deborah Weinstein in the Huffington Post: The Recession Generation: Congress Must Act Now to Prevent Long-Term Damage (7/27/10) Press Release: Recession Generation Report Shows Impact of Recession on Children and Young Adults (7/26/10) => More News Appropriations Funding Resources
CHN: FY 2011 Human Needs Funding: President's Request compared to FY10, FY09 and FY05 funding levels (2/18/10) CHN: FY 2011 Human Needs Funding: President's Request compared to FY10 and FY09 funding levels (2/18/10)
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Policy Analyses and Research
CBPP: Federal Spending Target of 21% of GDP Not Appropriate Benchmark for Deficit-Reduc tion Efforts (7/28/10) The Recession Generation: Preventing Long-term Damage from Child Poverty and Young Adult Joblessness (7/23/10) CBPP: Recession Continues to Batter State Budgets; State Responses Could Slow Recovery (updated 7/15/10) Urban Institute & Brookings: Kids' Share 2010: Report on Federal Expenditures on Children through 2009 (July 2010) First Focus: Children's Budget 2010 (July 2010) CEPR: The CEPR Deficit Calculator (June 2010) Deborah Weinstein's Testimony to the Fiscal Commission (6/30/10) CBPP: What States and the Economy Lost When the Senate Jobs Bill Failed: Data on How Much Medicaid Aid Each State Lost (6/24/10) CAP: Restoring Fiscal Balance: The New Deficit Commission's 2015 Targets (4/26/10) => More Policy Analyses and Research Government Resources Office of Management and Budget - FY 2010 Budget: A New Era of Responsibility: Renewing America's Promise (2/26/09)
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State Data
National Priorities Project: The President's Budget FY 2011 (February 2010) (includes links to pages with information by state) House Budget Committee: What’s at Stake: A State-By-State Analysis of the President’s Fiscal Year 2009 Budget (2/4/08)
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