How The Sequester’s Budget Cuts Will Devastate Already-Battered Programs

How The Sequester’s Budget Cuts Will Devastate Already-Battered Programs: Federal spending is scheduled to reach historic lows thanks to the Budget Control Act, which placed caps on spending as part of the deal to raise the debt ceiling in the summer of 2011. Non-defense spending is already 14 percent lower than it has been at any time in the last half-century, and it could [...]/p