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MADISON — After three unsuccessful attempts, Gov. Jim Doyle and leaders of the state’s newly Democratic Legislature appear poised to repeal a controversial law that effectively caps the pay of the state’s 60,000 teachers.
Flat sales tax revenues mean more belt tightening in a city that counts on retailers for a big chunk of its annual budget.
Nov 23 (Reuters) - Countries around the world are setting out fiscal stimulus packages to help their economies withstand the impact of the global fincial crisis. Below are some details:
Prime Minister Gordon Brown defended his plan on Sunday to inject billions of pounds of borrowed money into the economy to try to stave off a deep recession, saying failure to act could cause permanent damage.
Jet, Kingfisher rebuff Praful Patel, budget carriers reduce fares. Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel has asked state-owned airline Air India to cut fares, an act that would put pressure on leading private carriers like Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines to follow suit.
London - The government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to give nervous British consumers an early Christmas present on Monday, when he is expected to cut Value Added Tax (VAT) in an effort to lift the national economy out of recession, media reports said on Sunday.
Washington, Nov 23 : US President-elect Barack Obama has reportedly said that he would direct his economic team to craft a two-year stimulus plan with the goal of saving or creating 2.5 million jobs.
Philadelphia's escalating budget crisis has presented some rare defensive moments for Mayor Nutter, and left some wondering whether he made political missteps in estimating how the news would be received.
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Tui Travel, the tour operator group behind the Thomson and First Choice package holiday brands, is to offer 27% fewer summer holidays to British travellers in 2009 than it did last year as it anticipates a sharp decline in consumer confidence, further rises in UK unemployment and sustained weakness of the pound against the euro. The capacity reduction mirrors deep cuts at UK market leader ...
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