NYT vs. 'Pain' and 'Hurt' of State Budget Cuts: New York State Edition

admin — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:20:00 +0000

Reporter Thomas Kaplan manages to criticize the "pain" to come from Cuomo's budget cuts without once mentioning the state's $10 billion deficit: "...the consequences of a budget that makes deep cuts in education, health care and other areas will certainly prove severe....Now that lawmakers have passed a $132.5 billion budget, the pain predicted by many advocates may soon become real....Mr. Cuomo has acknowledged the hurt that his budget would cause."

Clay Waters

The New York Times vs. state spending cuts, take three. After the New York State legislature passed a $132.5 billion budget under new Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo that cuts overall spending by two percent, Albany-based reporter Thomas Kaplan went looking for budget victims for Friday's "After an On-Time Passage of a Pared-Back Budget, Bracing for the Pain to Come."

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NYT vs. 'Pain' and 'Hurt' of State Budget Cuts: New York State Edition