Credit counseling or a debt management service may be the right option if your bills are out of control or you have trouble making a budget.
Among its nine initiatives, California offered a proposition that could reduce government gridlock by lowering the minimum needed for the legislature to approve a state budget, making it a simple majority instead of a two-thirds majority.
"This is a big picture budget making the best out of a bad situation, " aid Sujan Hajra, chief economist at Anand Rathi, Mumbai-based securities firm.
"I suggest to members that we're making a mistake with this budget, " said House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Missouri.
Mr Watson decided to hone his film-making by shooting a low budget fictional feature with help from other British staff, which included marine biologists, geologists and mechanics.
But the Obama administration, desperate to promise benefits that it knows it cannot pay for, has found a solution: making up budget numbers.
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At this very moment, the VA is operating without a budget, making it harder for VA medical centers and clinics to deliver the care our vets need.
The automatic spending cuts were included in the bill with the idea that they would be so unpalatable to lawmakers that they would have a strong incentive to avoid them by making a deal to reduce the budget deficit.
Studios take home, on average, half of the box office so a movie has to earn at least twice its production budget before it comes close to making a profit.
Well it's doubtful that France, with its strong Gaullist traditions, will ever surrender sufficient control over budget-making to a centralised extra-territorial authority (Brussels or Berlin, depending on where you think the power would in practice reside).
Sticking with the ever-amusing Golden State, voters unfortunately eliminated the requirement for a two-thirds vote in the legislature to approve a budget, thus making it even easier for politicians to increase the burden of government spending.
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After a preliminary voice vote approved the amendment, it will wind its way through the sausage-making process that is known as legislating a budget.
With long-time collaborators, Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh, Jackson had established a "reasonably well oiled and comfortable" process for making big-budget, special effects movies, and he was keen to take on a new challenge.
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Mr Stournaras hopes they are deep enough to achieve a primary budget surplus (before making debt repayments) of 1.4% of GDP.
He also is likely to bring a jaundiced eye to Pentagon budget-making.
That has left Jones to assemble a squad on a comparative shoe-string budget, making their march to the Cup final all the more impressive.
And as the only OMB director in history to preside over a budget surplus for three consecutive years, Jack Lew knows a thing or two about making government work.
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It accuses Education Secretary Michael Gove of making a "complete mess" of the schools capital budget, not least in axing BSF, including halting planned rebuilds for hundreds of secondary schools.
This agreement between Democrats and Republicans, on behalf of all Americans, is on a budget that invests in our future while making the largest annual spending cut in our history.
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Our work must begin by making some basic decisions about our budget - decisions that will have a huge impact on the strength of our recovery.
Our work must begin by making some basic decisions about our budget -- decisions that will have a huge impact on the strength of our recovery.
Investors expect a new pact will include measures to curb excessive debt by making budget discipline legally binding, which could persuade the European Central Bank to take more action to halt the selloff in debt markets.
But in addition to creating headaches for developers trying to build games that will run well on tomorrow's machines, cheap, powerful computers are making it easier for small teams of developers to create polished games on a budget.
Helen Mountfield QC, for the residents, argued Brent Council had adopted "a fundamentally flawed and unlawful approach to the making of savings in its budget" and the local authority had failed to comply with equality legislation and consult the local community properly.
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Without more pay and a pickup in hiring, households may ring in 2012 by making their own budget cuts.
Both Thomson Travel and Norwegian Air Shuttle, a budget airline, have been told to expect delays and are making contingency plans.
Congress is currently in a contentious debate over the U.S. defense budget, making sure the country can handle the types of war that threatened in the 1980s.
Consolidate all government spectrum holdings under a single agency, perhaps the Office of Management and Budget, making it easier to determine which frequencies are unused or underutilized.
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Separately, as you guys know and I know from your reporting, on the super committee that dealt with the -- as a result of the Budget Control Act, Democrats went extremely far in making significant compromises on issues like entitlements.
Making indexation permanent would remove the annual threat of such a tax increase and expunge from the budget this fictional source of future revenues.
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