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BBC DG Tim Davie says the BBC's budget cuts since 2010 have been "shortsighted" and risked undermining its future, and announces a further £200M of budget cuts (Alexandra Topping/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/mar

🪧 After backlash, ICSD board rejects school budget proposal, approves reduced version for public vote
https://ithacavoice.org/2024/04/after-backlash-icsd-board-rejects-school-budget-proposal-approve…

After backlash, ICSD board rejects school budget proposal, approves reduced version for public vote
ITHACA, N.Y. — Following pushback from taxpayers, the Ithaca City School District Board of Education rejected the district’s 2024-2025 school year budget proposal at its meeting late Tuesday night. Instead, […]

De loterij voor subsidie voor ZE-trucks heeft dit jaar een extra dimensie: Tweede Kamer moet het budget nog goedkeuren.
De afgelopen jaren werd op de 1e dag al een veelvoud van het beschikbare budget aangevraagd. In plaats van een efficiënter subsidieontwerp blijft het loterijmodel in stand...
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Sollten Projekte, für die ja naturgemäß keine langfristige Förderung sichergestellt ist, vielleicht keine Infrastruktur aufbauen und bereitstellen? https://baudigital.social/@admin/112325590082481454
Aber bei den FIDs ist das ja Normalzustand, wenn ich das richtig se…

Joe Biden scolds GOP for using budget negotiations to target LGBTQ people - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/03/joe-biden-scolds-gop-for-using-budget-negotiations-to-target-lgbtq-people/

Joe Biden scolds GOP for using budget negotiations to target LGBTQ+ people - LGBTQ Nation
President Biden said the GOP abused the process. Meanwhile, activists have mocked the party for its "pathetic" victory.

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Hayden King and Riley Yesno, "Federal Budget 2024: An Indigenous Accounting"
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Federal Budget 2024: An Indigenous Accounting - Yellowhead Institute
Last week the Federal Government released the 2024-2025 budget, with new funding allocations for Indigenous communities. While these allocations are significant and there are even new policy approaches to be found in the budget, chronic shortfalls and the historically paternalistic Crown-Indigenous financial relationship remain.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12423 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

Rank, Pack, or Approve: Voting Methods in Participatory Budgeting
Participatory budgeting is a popular method to engage residents in budgeting decisions by local governments. The Stanford Participatory Budgeting platform is an online platform that has been used to engage residents in more than 150 budgeting processes. We present a data set with anonymized budget opinions from these processes with K-approval, K-ranking or knapsack primary ballots. For a subset of the voters, it includes paired votes with a different elicitation method in the same process. This…

Boston public radio station WBUR is offering employees buyouts in an effort to cut ~10% of its budget; CEO says WBUR expects to also cut jobs or freeze hiring (Aidan Ryan/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/03/26/business/wbur-buyout-emp…

WBUR offers employee buyouts to help cut costs
“We anticipate that we’ll still need to freeze some open roles and do layoffs, but we’re hoping to eliminate as few jobs as possible," the station's CEO, Margaret Low, said in announcing the buyout offer.