NYSARC Inc., the nation’s largest nonprofit agency serving people with developmental disabilities, is urging the Legislature and the governor to approve a final budget deal restoring $120 million in state funding to programs and services for people with developmental disabilities. ...

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WASHINGTON — Unprecedented cuts by the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service will slow first-class delivery next spring and, for the first time in 40 years, eliminate the chance for stamped letters to arrive the next day. The estimated $3 billion in ...

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It’s a done deal. What were announced last week as proposed cuts to the national organization funding civil legal services are now law. And the news does not get any better looking into the near future. Providers, who rely on ...

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The cuts just keep coming. The House Appropriations Committee is proposing to cut Legal Services Corp. funding by $104 million for fiscal 2012, which would roll it back to 1999 levels. That comes on the heels of a $15.8 million reduction this fiscal year.

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Even as the state seeks to revamp the health care system to save costs, hospitals, insurers and other groups are pouring more money than ever into lobbying to fend off impending cuts. Total lobbying spending in the state topped $200 million for the first time in 2010 ...

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New York is not the only state trying to do more with less. The impact of court under funding was discussed Thursday by Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman and several other Northeast judges at a hearing on the critical need for access to justice ...

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CONCORD, N.H. — The chief justices of seven northeast states are convening in New Hampshire to compare budget woes and hear from litigants who have suffered from cuts to the courts.

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BUFFALO — New York Democratic Congressman Brian Higgins is pressing a House committee to hold hearings to examine planned cuts to anti-terrorism funding for cities. The Department of Homeland Security last week notified ...

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The federal judiciary this week, citing the nation’s fiscal condition, asked a congressional subcommittee for its smallest funding increase on record. For fiscal 2012, the judiciary seeks $7.3 billion in appropriations ...

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Proposed federal cuts to funding for legal aid to the poor would severely impact local providers that are already struggling to serve clients. The House has passed a $70 million cut in Legal Services Corp. funding from the current fiscal year that ends Sept. 30.

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ALBANY — More than 40 elected Democrats made a rare attack on Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his proposed cuts to the party's priorities of education and health care as the state tries to trim a $10 billion budget deficit, according to a letter obtained Monday by The Associated Press.

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ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo will propose a 2011-12 budget of pain. A state official with knowledge of a private meeting between Cuomo and legislative leaders Monday night said Cuomo is considering cuts of 2 percent to 3 percent in school aid ...

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