As voters focus on the election, the state’s budget writers are concerned about what comes afterward, and whether Congress avoids the so-called fiscal cliff. “These budget reductions reverberate across all of state government, affecting health care, higher education and a variety of other services that Georgia citizens have come to expect from their government,” said Thomas Lauth, dean of the UGA School of Public and International Affairs and an expert on government budgets.
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