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Pharmaceutical companies will offer drug discounts for seniors over the next decade in a deal worked out with lawmakers and the White House.
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Los Angeles Times
School, healthcare and welfare programs face deep cuts. The latest proposal would affect nearly all quarters of state operations. By Eric Bailey Reporting from Sacramento — Gov.
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The stock market's turmoil has also sharply reduced revenues from capital gains taxes and California's housing market is in a deep slump, which is hurting consumer spending and in turn denting collections of retail sales taxes. …
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“If on May 19th it passes, here is one scenario, this is what we need to do in order to balance our books by July 1st. If it doesn't pass, if the initiatives don't pass, then here is the other scenario, with the more severe cuts, which is the $6 …
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By Ben Sharples May 11 (Bloomberg) — Santos Ltd., Australia's third- biggest oil and gas producer, halted trading in its shares ahead of a capital raising that the Australian Financial Review said would involve a A$3 billion ($2.3 billion) share sale. …
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The California Energy Commission has been tapped to dole out 60 percent of the state's $49.6 million portion of the federal grant to smaller cities and counties through a competitive grant process, said Crystal Morrow, administrative analyst with the …
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BALI, Indonesia — Ministers from across Asia agreed to set up an emergency $120 billion liquidity fund that 13 Asian nations can tap to help counter the global financial crisis.
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By Shamim Adam and Jason Clenfield May 4 (Bloomberg) — Asian nations will start a $120 billion foreign-currency reserve pool by year-end to help revive investor confidence as economies around the region falter amid the worst global recession since …
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Chicago Tribune, United States
By Claudia Eller | Tribune newspapers HOLLYWOOD — You know times are getting tough in the movie business when an entourage of studio executives, instead of flying by private jet to Sacramento to attend a screening, is forced to ride-share to …
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Los Angeles Times
It would make up for earlier cutbacks in state funding, but only if voters also approve Proposition 1A, which would extend recent tax increases for up to two additional years.
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