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Proposed cuts to block grants spark 'outrage, panic'

  • 02-28-2011
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By Alex Kellogg/NPR

President Obama's budget proposal includes a roughly $300 million cut from the Community Development Block Grant program. Popular with state and local governments, the program funds everything from affordable housing to job creation programs. Local officials from both parties say such cuts will only hurt cash-strapped cities and counties. President Obama announced plans earlier this month to cut $1.1 trillion from the deficit over 10 years. But one proposed cut is causing deep concern among mayors and other local officials on both sides of the aisle — cuts to the longstanding Community Development Block Grant programs. (more...)

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