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The Human Needs Report is the Coalition on Human Needs' newsletter
on national policy issues affecting low-income and vulnerable populations.
It is published every other week while Congress is in session.
Article from the February 16 , 2007 edition
of the CHN Human Needs
Report:
On February 5, the President’s FY 2008 budget was released. It contains domestic discretionary program cuts which begin in 2008 grow to $114 billion by 2012, the five-year period covered in the budget. At the same time, tax breaks for the wealthy are made permanent. The President claims on paper to balance the budget by 2012. He achieves this by excluding the real cost of the tax cuts and making unrealistic assumptions about revenues and economic growth. See CHN’s analysis at: http://www.chn.org/pdf/2007/bushbudget08.pdf.
For more analysis of the President’s budget view and listen to CHN’s budget briefings by going to: http://www.chn.org/budgettraining.html#briefings. Also see analysis by CHN' organizations related to specific issues at: http://www.chn.org/issues/budget/.
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