The Deficit Deal Explained Webinar - August 2011
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The Webinar Audio Recording (1:21 min) Presentation Slides
The Budget Control Act Coalition on Human Needs Report: The Debt Crisis is Averted: What Happens Next? (8/9/11) Committee for Education Funding: Budget Control Act Timetable and Summary (8/9/11) Interreligious Working Group on Domestic Human Needs: "What's the Deal?" Webinar (8/3/11) Coalition on Human Needs Statement: The Budget Control Act (8/1/11) Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Statement of Robert Greenstein, President, on the New Debt Ceiling Deal (8/1/11) Economic Policy Institute: EPI President Critical of Proposed Debt Ceiling Deal (8/1/11) Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: A Constitutional Balanced Budget Amendment Threatens Great Economic Damage (7/27/11)
Creating Jobs
Economic Policy Institute 21st Century School Fund: Creating Jobs Through FAST!, a Proposed New Infrastructure Program to Repair America's Public Schools (8/11/11) The Century Foundation and the Economic Policy Institute: Debt Ceiling Deal Threatens Deep Job Losses and Lower Long-Run Economic Growth (8/4/11) Economic Policy Institute: What's Missing from the Debt Ceiling Debate? Jobs (8/1/11)
Military Savings
Center for American Progress: Defense Cuts After the Debt Deal (8/11/11)
Services to Meet Human Needs; Impact on States
National Women's Law Center: State-by-State Fact Sheets for Super-Committee Advocacy (8/19/11) National Employment Law Project: Report: States Made Unprecedented Cuts to Unemployment Insurance in 2011 (8/3/11) Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: State Budget Cuts in the New Fiscal Year Are Unnecessarily Harmful (7/28/11) Families USA: Medicaid, the Budget, and Deficit Reduction: Keeping Score of the Threats (July 2011) Kaiser Family Foundation: State-by-State Changes in Medicaid Financing (May 2011) Coalition on Human Needs: The Recession Generation (7/23/10)
Tips for Town Hall Meetings
Bread for the World: Effectively Using a Town Hall Meeting to Call for a Circle of Protection (8/12/11)
Fair Revenue Sources
Coalition on Human Needs/SAVE Campaign: "It's a Binge on Top" Parody Video Warren Buffet in The New York Times: Stop Coddling the Super-Rich (8/14/11) Center for American Progress: The Choices Still to Be Made in the New Debt Deal (8/10/11) Wealth for the Common Good: Matt Damon's Statement on Taxes (July 2011)
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