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  • Study projects automatic cuts could cost US 1 million jobs

    06/07/2012 11:02:19 AM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 23 replies
    The Hill ^ | - 06/07/12 10:41 AM ET | Erik Wasson
    Automatic across-the-board cuts to the budget set for Jan. 2 will cost the United States 1 million jobs, according to a new study released Thursday by the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC).The job-loss projection comes from cuts to defense and non-defense spending. The BPC predicts gross domestic product will decline by 0.5 percent if the full $109 billion defense and non-defense sequester goes through. The base defense and intelligence budget will be cut by $55 billion or 15 percent on Jan. 2, when politically sensitive war funding is stripped from the equation, the group said. It warned of a massive disruption...