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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Calling on Missourians’ “stubborn and self-reliant” spirit, Gov. Jay Nixon urged members of the General Assembly to bridge a gap in next year’s budget, in part by cutting higher education funding by 12.5 percent. During his annual state of the state address Tuesday night, Nixon outlined his recommendations for balancing the [...]
Continue reading …By Benjamin Yount | Illinois Statehouse News SPRINGFIELD — The arithmetic behind Gov.
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The State Board of Education on Thursday voted unanimously to send a budget request to lawmakers that calls for $158-million in additional funding over last year. For the first time ever, the details of that budget request are available online both as a breakdown of the major categories for this year and a spreadsheet showing the numbers for FY2011 and FY2012 as well . Nearly half of the increase – $78-million – would go into the funding formula that passes through to districts.
Continue reading …By Andrew Thomason | Illinois Statehouse News SPRINGFIELD — More tax relief could be on the way with those paying the corporate income tax benefiting. Less than 24 hours after the Illinois Legislature approved $350 million worth of tax breaks for businesses and low-income earners, some lawmakers want to roll back the corporate tax to 4.8 percent, faster than outlined in the temporary income tax increase legislation passed in January.
Continue reading …Workforce-Retention a Concern in State Gov’t, But Pay Revamp Unlikely Anytime Soon: Haslam
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Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has been hinting that he’s interested in finding a way to keep quality employees from leaving state government jobs, but that’s unlikely to make it into next year’s budget, he said Thursday
Continue reading …By Andrew Thomason | Illinois Statehouse News SPRINGFIELD — Still dealing with the fallout created by years of budgets when spending outpaced revenue,
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Gov. Bill Haslam spent more than a year on the campaign trail promising voters he would take a fine-tooth comb to state government agencies and challenge them to evaluate how they could be more efficient. But almost a year into the governor’s tenure, few agencies have gotten that far
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State environmental regulators say they’re willing to chop $4.4 million worth of green from their budget next year but warned the governor that some of those cuts come with strings attached. More than half the department’s $349 million budget comes from the federal government, often in the form of federal matching funds that would shrink or disappear if state spending were cut, according to Department of Environment and Conservation Commissioner Robert Martineau. “We don’t want to leave that federal money on the table,” Martineau told Gov
Continue reading …By Benjamin Yount | Illinois Statehouse News SPRINGFIELD — Illinois' seven endangered prisons and mental health facilities will stay open for at least the next six months after lawmakers gave Gov. Pat Quinn the power to shift nearly $300 million inside the state budget.
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The state Department of Education anticipates spending $5.2 billion next year, representing one of the largest budgets in state government. The spending plan results in a $365 million or 6.5 percent overall reduction in over the current year’s budget. Still, the Department of Education is expanding in certain areas, looking for an extra $53.8 million to adjust for mandatory increases in the state’s education funding formula and another $1.2 million to cover growing costs in existing pre-K classrooms
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