Article: Looking for ways to ease, share pain of state budget cuts

Article: Weld airs broad $2.6b saving plan Education, local ...
The Boston Globe;  February 1, 1991 ;     700+ words ... ... month fiscal plan that makes deep cuts in human services programs, education, and local aid, Weld and Lt. Gov. Paul Cellucci said the ... a $618 million cut in the $5.8 billion human services budget, while adding $12 million in teen ...

Article: Mitt hacks away at local aid, human ...
The Boston Herald;  January 30, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... slashing deeply into local aid, health care for the poor, human services, public workers ... cut will fall on local aid, with Romney shaving ... 11 percent cut in local aid. The devil is the ... rubrics of health and human services, transportation ...

Article: ROMNEY SETS COLLISION COURSE PLAN TARGETS LOCAL ...
The Boston Globe;  February 2, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... the state's transportation operation, the way the judiciary is run, the method for distributing local aid, the delivery of human services, the police detail system, and police officers' educational bonuses. He also wants to further revamp ...

Article: Patrick should cut local aid, ease up on ...
The Boston Globe;  November 2, 2009 ;     519 words ...LOCAL OFFICIALS woke up giddy last week. After bracing for about $150 million in mid-year cuts in state aid to cities and towns, they were largely spared by the Patrick administration. Human service providers, however, took a $82 million whack on the chin. While there is no doubt that the cuts were

Article: PROPOSAL FOR EARLY LOCAL AID ENCOUNTERS QUESTIONS ...
The Boston Globe;  February 24, 1987 ;     700+ words ... ... rate of state spending on human services. "The gains that local aid has made have really come ... give automatic status to local aid without giving a similar status to human services." While that level of local aid may be necessary, she ...

Article: Compromise is sought on local aid cuts Democrats ...
The Boston Globe;  May 18, 1991 ;     700+ words ... ... largely avoid the massive local aid cuts it is proposing. A bipartisan agreement on local aid would remove a major stumbling ... state accounts, including human services, if the House members reject the local aid cut his committee's budget ...

Article: MURPHY, BELLOTTI OFFER THEIR IDEAS ON FUNDING FOR HUMAN ...
The Boston Globe;  August 1, 1990 ;     700+ words ... ... director of the Massachusetts Human Services Coaltition. In addition ... percent of state revenues for local aid sponsored by the Massachusetts ... funding and employment for human services. Murphy said she supports the local aid question and disputed the ...