That's potentially a huge source of income loss to an already strapped federal government.
At a time when cities and states are already strapped and our fragile economy needs every small business and working family at full speed, it's the job of our federal government to help.
But in 2003, in an effort to minimize the federal deficit, the Bush Administration persuaded Congress to shift the full cost of the pensions onto the already strapped USPS and ultimately onto postal patrons.
What if U.S. ARM re-sets (based on LIBOR) bump up the interest-rate charges that already-strapped homeowners have to pay?
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Municipalities already financially strapped and bleeding red ink, will only suffer more as the interest they have to pay on new debt will sky rocket.
English learner students are more likely to be in poor, overcrowded schools and in many places represent an added cost to already cash-strapped school districts.
On the one hand the figures can be seen as an indication that the slowing economy is forcing already-cash strapped consumers to accumulate more debt.
It puts pressure on already hard-strapped state and local budgets.
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"Removing the ILF will leave already cash-strapped local authorities even worse off - and they in turn will be looking at ways of cutting back on the support that they provide for disabled people with very high support needs, " he said.
The plaintiff, the prisoner involved, already had the devices strapped into his arm.
Post-panel, Reilly told a smaller group of reporters that he had yet to discuss the potential move with his affiliates and acknowledged it would be a complex decision given a host of challenges, including the already fragile state of several cash-strapped affiliates.
Back in Barnsley and York that undoubted success story is cold comfort to two cash-strapped local councils paying millions for property they thought the taxpayer had already bought.
Over the past few months, cash strapped Chesapeake Energy has faced several headwinds as its leadership team misgoverned and aggravated the operations already marred by rock-bottom gas prices.
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