The President's Fiscal Year 2014 Budget proposal is delivered to the Senate Budget Committee
The President's Fiscal Year 2014 Budget proposal is delivered to the Senate Budget Committee and distributed to staff, in Washington DC on April 10, 2013. UPI/Molly Riley
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Our economy is poised for progress, as long as Washington doesn't get in the way
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all-told, we will have surpassed the goal of $4 trillion in deficit reduction that independent economists believe we need to stabilize our finances, but it does so in a balanced and responsible way -- a way that most Americans prefer
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billions of dollars in taxpayer handouts to the dirty energy industry of the past, which it doesn't need, and harms our health and planet
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That's why we're proposing a major new investment to help ensure that students and young adults get the treatment they need. We'll be training 5,000 mental health professionals to join our Behavioral Health Workforce. We'll be supporting Project AWARE, an effort to train teachers and other adults to detect and respond to signs of mental illness in young people. And we'll be providing support for innovative, state-based strategies that help reach young people with mental health or substance abuse issues
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The significant new investments this budget contains for the NIH reflect our commitment to furthering the biomedical research that will help create good new jobs and advance the cause of medical science
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