Washington Tourism Up, Despite Sequester Budget Cuts The number of visitors coming to the National Air and Space Museum has actually increased since the sequester took effect. The budget for the Smithsonian Institution museums that line the National...
Jefferson Moves to Cut Debt, Spending - Pgm No. 32 Learning English, welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION, our weekly program of American history - for people learning English. I'm Steve Ember. In our last program, we talked about President Thomas Jeffe...
New Budget Cuts Cost of Living Adjustments for US Retirement Fund About 58 million Americans receive social security benefits. Many live day-to-day on fixed incomes. Everything is going up. It's rising and there is not much you can do about it, Denni...
Airport Towers Close Under Forced US Budget Cuts Air traffic controllers at the Frederick, Maryland, airport will no longer guide pilots around this busy airspace. Under mandatory federal government spending cuts, this control tower - like 148 others...
US Cities Brace for Mandatory Government Spending Cuts Air traffic controllers at the Frederick, Maryland, municipal airport guide pilots around the busy airspace. But, under the spending cuts known as sequestration, this control tower, like many at...
US Air Force Facing Cuts in Manpower, Flying Hours Captain Frank Gilliard flies an air refueling tanker - a KC-135. The 135 can also be set up as a hospital, he said. He and all other Air Force pilots are facing an 18 percent cut in flying hours. Tha...
Washington Week: Focus on Effects of Automatic Spending Cuts With President Obama and Congress unable to agree on alternatives to across-the-board cuts, the American people are weighing in on Washingtons unending budgetary drama. It is just ridiculou...
Conservatives See Victory in Budget Cuts Earlier this week, Obama was back in campaign mode at a shipyard in Virginia, warning about the dangers of the mandatory budget cuts. So these cuts are wrong. They are not smart. They are not fair. They are a...
Obama: Spending Cuts Are 'Dumb,' Unnecessary Obama called the $85 billion in automatic cuts dumb and arbitrary, and he said Republicans could have stopped them. Lets be clear. None of this is necessary. It is happening because [of] a choice that Repu...
Senior Citizens Express Anxiety About US Budget Cuts The volunteers and staff at Meals on Wheels in Takoma Park, Maryland feed two meals a day to between 30 to 40 home-bound senior citizens and disabled clients. Many of the volunteers are seniors the...