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Trump's food stamp cuts faces hard sell in Congress

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's proposal to slash food stamps by a third will be a hard sell in Congress, even as Republicans have tried repeatedly to scale back the program's $70 billion annual cost. Trump's proposed budget would save $191 billion in savings over 10 years by shifting some of the cost to states, targeting the benefits to the poorest people, increasing work requirements and limiting some eligibility. Mick Mulvaney, Trump's budget director, said Monday that shifting costs... Читать дальше...



New policy center at University of Wisconsin raises alarms

«La Crosse Tribune» (lacrossetribune.com) 

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker and fellow Wisconsin Republicans on Tuesday announced the formation of a new public policy center at the state's flagship university, which liberals said would be nothing more than a taxpayer-funded conservative think tank.

Why Disaster Prevention Matters

The Huffington Post 

By Robert Glasser*



Fundamentally, you cannot have a disaster if there are no people involved. It is people who create disaster risk and it is people who suffer the consequences. And often, the people who suffer the consequences are not the same people who created the risk in the first place.



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Unexpected video game horses, ranked

Mashable 

Red Dead Redemption 2 may have been delayed until spring 2018, but we’re not prepared to give up thinking about horse adventures just yet. Sure, the new screenshots that Rockstar Games released were a consolation, but they were also severely lacking in one of the best parts of the game: the horses.

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A big week for European golf, but baby steps to narrow gap

TheRepublic.com 

The European Tour has reason to celebrate, as long as it can avoid comparisons. The BMW PGA Championship this week is the signature event on the European Tour schedule and will be held on a revamped West course at Wentworth that has players raving. At least before they have to put scores on their cards.

Trump proposes deep U.S. spending cuts in Mexico, Central America

Yahoo! News 

By Gabriel Stargardter MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed drastically slashing U.S. foreign aid spending in Mexico and Central America, which are struggling with drug violence, graft and poverty that prompts many from the troubled region to migrate north. Trump's austere 2018 budget proposal, which seeks to trim $3.6 trillion from government spending over the next decade and is unlikely to get legislative approval in its current form, envisages steep cuts in most federal departments... Читать дальше...





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