is about the human consequences of budget cuts. It shows that the dry discussion in the textbook about the size of government, about government's growth and decline in different sectors, which sounds so abstract, is really about human lives, and often the difference between a life of decency and one of constant stress. I'm happily surprised to see it in the New York Times; last year I wrote a paper about how the Times too often treated the budget in mathematical terms, making it seem like it's just these crazy politicians making too much spending, rather than that spending having significant consequences.
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