The state is asking every agency to slash 14% of their budgets.
As part of the proposed cuts, which were submitted to the state this week, Department of Public Health staff would have to take one full furlough day per month, and would have to take a total of 12 furlough days in total, AJC reported.
AJC says budget plans the newspaper obtained also show nearly $18 million slashed in grant money for county health departments and numerous other programs. State lawmakers will vote on the cuts when they return in June to pass a budget for the next fiscal year, with a reported goal of slashing over $3.5 billion in totalEducation would be hit particularly hard by the cuts, according to AJC, with the state putting a freeze on filling more than 2,000 vacant positions in the University System of Georgia and cutting K-12 school funding by around $1.5 billion., with tax collections in April off about $1 billion — a 35.9% drop.
Facing a $54 billion budget shortfall, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed a 10% pay cut for all state workers — himself included — as well as canceling
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