Key takeaways from R.I. Governor McKee's $13.6 billion budget
The budget proposal includes $345 million in bond items, expands eligibility for free school meals, begins to raise Medicaid reimbursement rates, and raises taxes on cigarettes.
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The budget proposal includes $345 million in bond items, expands eligibility for free school meals, begins to raise Medicaid reimbursement rates, and raises taxes on cigarettes.
“Housing is the biggest issue our members, and frankly this state, faces,” the President and CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island said. “I think we have an obligation to do everything we can.”
Submitted Opinion Column: Neil D. Steinberg has been president and CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation.
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A new, independent review finds decades of underinvestment, a lack of state incentives, and unnecessary red tape put Rhode Island dead last in the country for housing production per capita.