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U.S. Rep Kathy Castor blames Republicans for cuts to Head Start listen

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Tags: Head Start, Kathy Castor, sequester, sequestration

Thousands of parents who rely on a federally funded program for childcare so they can go to work or school may be out of luck next year. Across the board spending cuts known as the sequester are slashing funding by 5% this year. During a press conference in front of a Head Start center in Town ’N’ Country Tuesday, U.S. Representative Kathy Castor called on her colleagues to do something about it.

“Now in Hillsborough County, we [serve thousands](http://www.hillsboroughcounty.org/index.a...

Cancer research threatened by sequester listen

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Tags: Kathy Castor, Moffitt Cancer Center, medical research, cancer research, budget cuts, sequestration

Research institutions in all 50 states will see their budgets decrease this year as a result of across the board spending cuts. That includes Tampa’s Moffitt Cancer Center.
Sarah Donatelli is a post doctoral scholar at the facility. She said the effects could mean a dangerous reduction in cancer research.

“Cancer cells are always developing ways to outwit the current therapies we have now. It’s a monster that continues to mutate and develop – you have to keep pace with it.”

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Obama urges Congress to close tax loopholes and not spend the money on the rich listen

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Tags: Barack Obama, sequestration, fiscal cliff, federal budget, tax loopholes

President Barack Obama urged Congress to avert impending mandatory budget cuts by agreeing to both spending cuts and revenue increases. During an address this afternoon, the President told reporters the proposals he made during last year’s fiscal cliff negotiations are still on the table.

The Presidents remarks came as the March 1st budget deadline approaches. If a deal is not reached by then, a process Washington insiders call Sequestration will force indiscriminate deep spending cuts. ...

Activists warn against across the board federal spending cuts listen

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Looming cuts to domestic spending could impact millions of Americans if lawmakers don’t agree on a plan to avoid the so-called sequester. A group of labor activists and students who spoke in front of Senator Marco Rubio’s Tampa office Wednesday want him to look toward revenue not austerity.

As part of the deal at the end of last year to continue tax cuts for people earning less than $450,000, lawmakers postponed a series of sweeping b...