UPDATED: Details on Four Budget Proposals
Note: This post has been updated to include information on higher education, support for families and children and for P-12 education.
The tables below make side-by-side comparisons between the four budget proposals--the Governor's Book One and Book Two and the proposals passed by the House Ways & Means Committee and the Senate. We'll continue to post tables for other areas of the budget.
Health care access and affordability
Care for people with long term health needs
Support families and protect children
Each present a very different view of how to deal with the current economic and fiscal crisis. The Governor's Book One budget demonstrates the depth of the budget cuts we will face if we do not take a balanced approach, including revenue. The other three budgets avoid some of the deepest cuts--such as eliminating affordable health insurance coverage for 65,000 people--by raising modest revenue.
However, deep cuts remain even in the budgets that assume revenue increases. Both the Governor's Book 2 and the House budget will eliminate child care assistance for thousands of lower income working families. Both the Governor's Book 2 and the Senate budget make deep cuts in assistance for people who are temporarily unable to work due to disability. All three budgets suspend voter-approved funding for improving student achievement and make deep cuts in higher education.
