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Friday's Blog for America offered a review of the President's proposed budget from a labor organization.

Blog for America: "The International Labor Communications Association, a North American organization of labor communicators, today released a statement that President Bush's budget will be hard to swallow for most low-income Americans by creating additional tax cuts for the wealthy, while at the same time cutting funding to many programs for middle- and low-income families:

# The budget would more than double the co-payment many veterans pay for prescription drugs and would charge some of them a new $250 annual fee for government health care. Some veterans hospitals would be shut down or have their services cut back.

# The budget would cut $1.1 billion from the federal food stamp program over the next 10 years, leaving 300,000 very low-income working families without aid.

# Medicaid would be reduced by $45 billion over 10 years.

# Among $56 billion in education cuts, Bush wants to end Perkins loans, which provide low-interest loans to low- and middle-income college students.

# Steep cuts - at least $1 billion - in community development block grants that help cities help low-income residents with everything from affordable housing to job training and childcare."
posted by Unknown at 7:43 AM