South Carolina State budget crisis deepens

Posted by Kendall Harmon

South Carolina's budget woes got even worse Tuesday when government spending was slashed by another 5 percent, leaving agency directors to decide between layoffs, employee furloughs and turning away the state's downtrodden.

The Budget and Control Board voted 3-2 to cut $238.2 million from the state budget, which has fallen from $6.7 billion to $5.1 billion in less than two years.

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Filed under: * Economics, PoliticsEconomyThe Credit Freeze Crisis of Fall 2008/The Recession of 2007--Politics in GeneralState Government* South Carolina

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Posted December 17, 2009 at 5:20 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. Alta Californian wrote:

Gee, if this post was about California there would be half a dozen comments bashing my state by now.  But when it’s South Carolina you can hear the crickets.

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