February 12, 2009
Charities Urge Congress to Aid Them in Economic-Stimulus Plan
As debate over an economic-stimulus plan moved to the Senate last week, nonprofit groups pushed to head off spending cuts to social programs and to insert new measures to help charities and foundations weather the recession.
Many Republicans in both houses were stepping up pressure to cut spending in a bill that had mushroomed to $900-billion, and some Senate Democrats joined in. That worried some charity leaders, who feared spending cuts could hit proposals to provide billions of new
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