JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Gov. Jay Nixon is cutting an additional $200 million from Missouri's budget and eliminating nearly 700 state employee jobs.
Nixon said the cuts are necessary because of a continued decline in state tax revenues.
The cuts announced Wednesday come on top of $430 million that Nixon eliminated earlier this year. That's out of $23.7 billion budgeted by lawmakers for state operations and capital improvements during the current fiscal year.
The latest round includes the second-semester elimination of state aid for Missouri's online school program. Arts and humanities also will lose half their year's funding; some health care providers will see reductions in their Medicaid payment rates; and the state will stop taking new non-Medicaid clients for certain mental health services.
Good job Jay Nixon
I didn't think I'd ever see a trough-feeder standing in the unemployment line.
Old Drum isn't going to like that.
Joe Wilson puts the "citizen" back in citizen legislator. In 2010, send more to Washington, D.C. and wipe it clean of trough-feeders, race-baiters, constitution torchers, political hacks, ass-kissers, scumbags, leeches & liars.