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When the federal sequester budget cuts went into effect March 1 of last year, they impacted some of the most vulnerable families in the nation.

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For the past two years Americans have narrowly avoided hitting the debt ceiling, falling off the fiscal cliff and a variety of other hazardous economic metaphors. Each new crisis was breathlessly debated and tracked and a sigh of relief was heard when an eleventh-hour deal was reached.