The Harshest State Budget Cuts - 8 States That Are Slashing Services (photos)

Ryan McCarthy, Huffington Post: Business
Fri, 08/06/2010 - 6:05am

If you think the recession has already decimated state services, think again. The worst state budget cuts are yet to come. States have enacted budgets for the 2011 fiscal year with cuts that "go even further than those enacted over the past two fiscal years," according to a new report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

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