JEFFERSON CITY — The tornadoes and floods that pummeled much of the South and Midwest also have dealt a serious blow to struggling state budgets, potentially forcing new cuts to education and other services to offset hundreds of millions of dollars in disaster aid.
Disasters deliver blow to state budgets in the South, Midwest
Saturday, June 25, 2011 | 5:11 p.m. CDT;
updated 4:12 p.m. CDT, Thursday, September 22, 2011
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