July 18, 2011
Headlines
Budget proposals pit public investment against vital services
State parks closure has unlikely consequences
Charter school battle shifts to affluent suburbs
TX: Builder of Texas roads may default on Indiana project
IL: Chicago mayor laying off up to 625 workers
NJ: NJ Transit parking plan derailed
FL: House Dems assail Medicaid privatization plan
CT: Gov orders one of the largest budget cuts in CT history
WA: Costco revamps liquor-sales initiative
MD: Frederick Co. struggles over whether to privatize services
PA: Brawl shaping up over proposal to privatize state business
News summaries
Budget proposals pit public investment against vital services
EPI examines the current competing plans—President Obama’s 2012 budget
proposal, the Bowles-Simpson debt commission’s plan, and House Budget
Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s budget resolution—and finds that each
would make severe cuts to the NSD budget, diminishing it by 2021 to
