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AL: Editorial: Medicaid, no happy choices

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Editorial: Medicaid, no happy choices Published: Monday, February 14, 2011, By Mike Hollis, The Huntsville Times In just a couple of weeks the Legislature will convene in Montgomery to face Alabama's most serious budget crisis since the Great Depression. In briefings last week, state fiscal experts told lawmakers that the needs of Medicaid and state prisons are expected to push the General Fund budget shortage for the next fiscal year to $738 million. Gov. Robert Bentley's state finance director, David Perry, told lawmakers in the first day of budget hearings that some General Fund agencies will likely be forced to layoff some employees. "In some cases," Perry said, "we need to think strategically about whether certain programs are continued...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 15, 2011 (boomark / email).