Sunday, February 21, 2010

State layoffs loom again to fill gap - Tom Fahey, Union-Leader

Their ideas include taking $3.5 million from the community college system, $10 million from the university system, $2 million from services to disabled adults on a waiting list, $2 million from brain injury programs and $1.7 million from the LCHIP preservation account. Environmental services, dropout prevention, AIDS programs and smaller programs like the N.H. Film Commission are also hit. Public workers would pay 2 percent more toward their retirement, and the state would cut deeper into its share of retirement costs for communities