Far too often, schools are tasked with bearing the burden of budget cuts, left to deal with a crumbling structure, understaffed facilities, and inadequate materials.
Democrats argued that the measure would put the burden of budget cuts primarily on poor and middle-class people, as the benefits would flow primarily to the wealthy.
That means the entire burden of budget cuts falls to new projects and new ideas.
We are able to explore these worlds without the burden of budgets, contracts, and deadlines.
Consider, instead, the reality of councils, alongside an emasculated Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) – the body responsible for flood defences and, crucially, food security – shouldering the burden of massive budget cuts at a time of rising challenges induced by climate change.
If this bipartisan bill passes in the Senate, I hope it will provide some much needed relief to families like Jennifer-Cari's that have been unfairly bearing the burden of Congress' budget uncertainty.
In Philadelphia, for instance, Mayor Michael Nutter has allowed corporations and large, wealthy institutions to escape paying their fair share while at the same time forcing the poorest neighborhoods to bear the burden of his budget cuts.
As Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa recently said, state officials must come up with an alternative plan because eliminating redevelopment projects will kill jobs and shift the entire burden of the budget on cities who are already strapped for cash.
Universities from the panhandle down to Miami are trying to find ways to make ends meet, but as expected, it's we the students who are carrying the burden of these budget cuts.
Experts also fear a shortage of skilled workers, as Europe's population ages and becomes more of a burden on budgets.
