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发帖数: 10416 | 1 Texas slashes budget to close budget deficit
Tami Luhby, senior writer, On Wednesday January 19, 2011, 12:11 pm
Texas lawmakers unveiled a Spartan budget late Tuesday night that slashes $
31 billion in spending to close the state's massive budget deficit. Schools,
Medicaid and corrections would be hit particularly hard.
The spending plan calls for a 13% cut to public education and a 7.6% drop in
higher education support. Health and human services would see funding
plummet by nearly a quarter, while government services would fall by nearly
the same percentage.
Nearly 9,300 government jobs would be eliminated and Medicaid providers
would see a 10% rate reduction. Fewer residents would receive meal
deliveries and services to keep them in their homes. Some 60,000 students
would lose financial aid for college. Funding for defending the poor in
court would drop by 15%. And the department that supervises and supports
parolees would by cut by nearly 21%.
"We already know that the cuts-only approach taken in the proposed bill
would hurt Texas families, cost us jobs, and undermine our economy recovery,
" said F. Scott McCown, executive director of the Center for Public Policy
Priorities, which focuses on low- and moderate-income Texans. "With a
revenue shortfall this large, as the proposed budget shows, the Legislature
cannot balance the budget through cuts alone without doing terrible damage." |
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