Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Poor targeted in Pa. budget

Department of Public Welfare replaces schools on chopping block with $471 million cut proposed.

When Gov. Corbett proposed to balance the budget by cutting hundreds of millions of dollars from universities and public schools, squawks of protest erupted throughout Pennsylvania.

Neither deaf nor politically unsavvy, House Republicans listened to the noise, then came up with a new plan to restore nearly $600 million in aid to education.

So if schools are, to some extent spared, who will bear the brunt of budget cuts?

The House's Republican majority, elected on pledges of new ideas - smaller government, ethics reform - settled on a not-so-fresh notion: Cut funding for the poor.

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