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With a Billion Dollar Budget Shortfall, Tennessee Should Consider Death Penalty Repeal

By Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing

Tennessee lawmakers began a new session of the General Assembly yesterday facing the challenge of balancing a state budget with what may be a nearly billion dollar shortfall. The current year?s budget includes a 10 percent reduction in the state budget, though many of those cuts were softened by the $2.2 billion in stimulus money that Tennessee received. And though the State Funding Board has projected that state revenues will modestly increase during the upcoming budget year, this growth will not be nearly enough to make up for the loss of the stimulus funds.The Governor is asking state agencies for proposals cutting between 6 percent and 9 percent from their spending plans for this budget year. Of particular concern are cuts to vital mental health care programs that are already underfunded...continue to full post

Full post as published by tcask:: on the road (to abolition) on January 26, 2010 (boomark / email).