Budget Cuts

The City of St. Louis receives at least $162 million in federal dollars, and over 150 city government projects would be impacted if President Donald Trump’s executive orders stick.

The potential cut to a federal meal program for high-need school districts would result in about 900,000 students in the Midwest and Great Plains losing free school breakfasts and lunches.

The St. Louis County Council now has enough members who can regularly override County Executive Sam Page’s vetoes.

The budget deficit is largely due to a sharp drop in international student enrollment this year.

The campus in deep southern Illinois is grappling with a nearly $9.5 million budget shortfall that its leader says is largely fueled by athletics.

State agencies in Southwestern Illinois are bracing for budget cuts after Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced a first round that will affect public safety and social services, with promises of more to come.

The Missouri legislature has retaliated against the state health department by including what some called drastic cuts to the agency in next year’s…

Lessons on safe sleep practices for low-income parents, and 200 portable cribs. That’s what a $20,000 contract represented for a St. Louis nonprofit,…

When Sheila Beckham’s house was leaking heat last winter, she thought back to when her great-grandfather repaired his home.“I remembered that the Urban…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, March 5, 2013 - WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, one of the moderates whom President Barack…