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Federal Funding

Friday, March 1, 2013

Sequestration Budget Cuts: Where Do Federal Employees Work in Wayne County?

There are more than 90,000 federal employees in Michigan. Click on Wayne County in the interactive chart below to find out how many there are here and hover over the bars to see which departments they work for.

  • GOVERNMENT
  • Friday, March 1

Unless Congress reaches a last-minute agreement on the sequester by Friday, the huge budget cuts slated to kick in have the potential to affect nearly 9,000 federal employees working in Wayne County. Barring any kind of deal, the Obama administration will have to impose $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts to military and domestic programs on Friday, according to The New York Times. Those cuts would be the start of $1 trillion in cuts over the next decade. The numbers in the graph above show the number of federal employees in Michigan by county in 2012, according to the latest figures from Eye on Washington, a DC-based lobbying firm that tracks federal employment. It compiles the data from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management …

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Federal Sequestration Could Mean Loss of Funds for Dearborn Schools (in Dearborn Patch) and Federal Sequestration Could Mean Loss of Funds for Trenton Schools (in Trenton Grosse Ile Patch)

Ted Dziengelewski

4:20 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013

What is the one column that is not labeled in Wayne County? Why is it not labeled   more ›

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Federal Sequestration Could Mean Loss of Funds for Wyandotte Schools

A 5.3 percent cut to Wyandotte Public Schools' federal funding will happen March 1 if Congress does not reach an agreement before then.

Federal funding for Michigan’s public schools—including Wyandotte—could see major cuts should Congress fail to halt $85 billion in "sequestration" spending cuts scheduled to take hold March 1, according to a statement released Sunday by the White House. In Michigan, the cuts would result in a loss of $22 million in funding for schools this year, which the White House estimates would “put around 300 teacher and aid jobs at risk.” It would also cut $20.3 million in funding for special education programs. It will mean a 5.3 percent cut to Wyandotte Public Schools' federal funding. Wyandotte Superintendent Carla Harting said she does not yet have detailed information on how this might affect the district.  "Any reduction in federal funds will …

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