Base the annual increase in local government levies not on inflation, but on ...  That will protect overburdened Illinoisans from tax hikes and allow the state to ...  for a state that spends 25 percent of its general fund budget on health care,  largely ... Repealing ObamaCare's Medicaid expansion to ensure patients who  need the ...
Aug 23, 2017 ... Overall state funding for public two- and four-year colleges in the 2017 school  year (that is, the school year ending in 2017) was nearly $9 billion below its 2008  level, ... State Cuts Have Driven Up Tuition and Reduced Quality ... increases in  federal student aid and the availability of tax credits have not kept ...
Mar 15, 2018 ... In Trump's first three full quarters in the White House, GDP clocked growth just  shy of .... What's astounding is how much worse his tax cuts and spending ... item  in the federal budget, more than tripling to almost $1.1 trillion annually. ... out the  funding on everything from health care to the military,” says Marc ...
Aug 15, 2016 ... Years of cuts in state funding for public colleges and universities ... in federal  student aid and the availability of tax credits have not kept up, ... To make college  more affordable and increase access to higher education, many states need to ...  Nationally, spending is up an average of $199 per student, or 2.8 ...
Jun 22, 2018 ... Medicare, the federal health insurance program for nearly 60 million people ... in  Medicare spending in the past 10 years is the increase in payments to ... part of  the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA). ... at an  average annual rate of 5.8 percent and 7.3 percent, respectively, ...
Funding the federal health care law without a tax hike will "require the state to cut nearly a quarter of its annual budget."