Description: Examination of per pupil expenditures in Boston Public Schools. "Fixed costs" keep increasing. Special education requires disproportionate funding. Elementary classroom and kindergarten file.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/22/1989
Description: Deborah Weinstein and AFDC recipients present "poor people's budget" to safeguard welfare benefits and human services in the state budget.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/20/1989
Description: A look at likely provisions in the FY90 budget to be unveiled by Senate Ways & Means. Patricia McGovern.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/31/1989
Description: Silent procession up State House steps to protest massive funding cuts in mental health programs. Mock funeral in St. Paul's Cathedral for endangered human services.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/28/1989
Description: Righteous outcry, by those who would be shortchanged, to protest announced FY90 budget cuts. Crowd waving placards in front of State House.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/14/1989
Description: In House, Democrats lean toward spending cuts to solve the budget deficit without new taxes. Republicans are willing to rearrange program cuts to spare most vulnerable. Keverian, Voke, Pierce, Locke.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/02/1989
Description: Republican senators discuss budget cutting proposal. Paul Cellucci, David Locke. People walk up State House steps in winter coats.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/11/1989
Description: Republican legislative leaders David Locke and Steven Pierce propose budget cuts in many areas to eliminate deficit. Keverian bangs gavel at speaker's rostrum.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/15/1989
Description: Retrospective of the developing budget crisis through clips of Dukakis in action over the last fiscal year. Keverian bangs gavel.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/13/1989
Description: Explainer on where state funds go: human services, corrections, education, highway construction, job training, health care, etc. Per capita spending and increase therein rank above national average.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/12/1989