Cuomo’s budget plan for New York slashes school, Medicaid funds

By Nicholas Confessore and Thomas Kaplan / The Bulletin
February 2, 2011

NEW YORK — Declaring New York State “functionally bankrupt,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a $132.9 billion budget on Tuesday that would reduce year-to-year spending for the first time in more than a decade, slash projected spending on education and health care, and....

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