Governor Sonny Perdue says a $2.2 billion dollar budget loss will make cuts necessary across the state government. This is about 10 percent of the state budget. In his State of the State address today, Perdue is asking legislators to stay positive “even in the face of difficult economic cycles.” Perdue realizes that cutting waste from the budget isn’t enough to remedy this problem. He is requesting that the state pull as much as it can from the $1.2 billion reserve.
(AP)
