$1 Billion in Cuts Will Slash Social Services and Higher Ed, Spare K- 12

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Gov. Jerry Brown pulled the trigger on nearly $1 billion in automatic mid-year budget cuts Tuesday that will slash core social service programs and higher education but largely spare K-12 education.

The announcement comes in the wake of new accounting from the Department of Finance, placing revenues $2.2 billion short of the $88.4 billion Brown and state legislators had hoped for when they passed the budget last summer.

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$1 Billion in Cuts Will Slash Social Services and Higher Ed, Spare K- 12

Several social safety nets are on the chopping block - including funding for school buses, support programs for the developmentally disabled and child subsidies for working mothers. The state's three- tier higher education system will also suffer - by about $300 million.

Medical, in-home support services for seniors and the disabled, library grants and prison f...

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