{"id":4631,"date":"2011-12-30T14:43:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T19:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=4631"},"modified":"2012-01-01T01:20:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T06:20:39","slug":"state-budget-cuts-hurt-health-higher-education-and-essential-services-the-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/12\/30\/state-budget-cuts-hurt-health-higher-education-and-essential-services-the-most\/","title":{"rendered":"State Budget Cuts Hurt Health, Higher Education And Essential Services The Most"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A look back at this year’s major state budget cuts shows who took the hardest hits in New Hampshire. As the Nashua Telegraph\u00a0<\/a>reports, with $1 billion slashed from the budget, more agencies than usual felt the effects.<\/p>\n

Republican legislators heralded the budget as a victory for smaller government, shaving more than $1 billion, or 11 percent, off the prior spending plan.<\/p>\n

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But many state Democrats decried the budget for digging too deeply into some of the state\u2019s most essential services and programs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hospitals lost more than $115 million and laid off more than 1,000 staffers. The state university system endured record budget cuts and saw its coffers trimmed by 45 percent. As a result, 200 employees in public higher education lost their jobs. The Department of Transportation faced a 13 percent cut and also cut its workforce.<\/p>\n

Other agencies facing cuts are New Hampshire Legal Assistance and the state’s Division of Family Assistance.<\/p>\n

For New Hampshire, state budget cuts are an anomaly. In the last half century, the state budget has been cut only once, and and that was by 1 percent.<\/p>\n

Ed. Note: In an earlier version of this post, we mistakenly referred to the Nashua Telegraph as the “Nashua Telegram.” \u00a0We regret the error.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A look back at this year’s major state budget cuts shows who took the hardest hits in New Hampshire. As the Nashua Telegraph\u00a0reports, with $1 billion slashed from the budget, more agencies than usual felt the effects. Republican legislators heralded the budget as a victory for smaller government, shaving more than $1 billion, or 11 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[84,493,28,185,484,494],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4631"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4643,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631\/revisions\/4643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}