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In the first week of the 2010 legislative session, one of the few points of bipartisan agreement has been the importance of creating jobs. Well for all the folks in Olympia, here’s an idea: don’t cut another $2.6 billion in state programs.
A new report released by the Economic Opportunity Institute in Seattle shows that an all-cuts budget would result in a loss of 33,600 more public and private sector jobs in Washington State. For those of you following along at home, that’s a lot.
But don’t despair: they also found that using a combination of new revenue and federal aid to fill the state’s budget gap would preserve most or all of these jobs.
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