WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is sending Congress a $4.1 trillion spending plan that relies on faster economic growth and steep cuts to programs supporting low-income individuals to balance the government’s books over the next decade. The proposed budget, ...

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Budget — “a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions.” The budgeting process is not a glorious task. It is often extremely labor intensive, an exercise in number crunching and adds little or no value to the company. The traditional bottom-up budget ...

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The importance of a budget never really goes away, but it doesn’t have to be as scary as some make it out to be. I’ll review three stages in life and the types of things that could be in your ...

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I sat across from a new client recently and declared, “You’re a fancy pants … I know this because it takes one to know one.” To her credit, this client took my comment in stride, and we had a good ...

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  Officials at the New York State Unified Court System have submitted a $2.18 billion budget request for the 2017-18 fiscal year that includes a $15 million upgrade in technology and security equipment and 200 new workers. The spending plan ...

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Army Reserve Col. Andrew Evans said any tax increase in a middle class family’s tax bill is too much of an increase. Evans, who introduced Gov. Andrew Cuomo during the governor’s April 10 visit to Irondequoit, called the state budget ...

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For the second time in his first term, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is asking the judiciary to cut its budget. He did not mention the court system in his budget address Tuesday, but issued a separate commentary, noting the judiciary ...

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Sheriff Patrick O’Flynn won’t be getting a $37,300 pay raise next year, but child-care advocates hoping to see $1.3 million restored for child-care subsidies also walked away unhappy after Monroe County legislators OK’d by a 19-10 party line vote a ...

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The state judiciary says it is no longer able to maintain its constitutional duty of operating the court system without an increase in its budget. After five years of submitting an essentially flat spending request, the judiciary is asking for ...

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Members of Rochester’s City Council want more answers about the mayor’s proposal to cut the police department’s mounted patrol unit, which many say is a popular and effective program. A hearing on the police department’s $86 million budget was held ...

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ALBANY — Good-government groups are slamming New York’s legislature for what one senator called “vampire” voting because much of the new $135 billion budget is built on reviving taxes and the bills are being voted on in the dead of ...

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ALBANY — Some New York lawmakers are upset with a proposed tax credit that would benefit NBC if it moves “The Tonight Show” from California to New York City. As reports circulated that Jimmy Fallon is poised to become the ...

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