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House Democrats want to boost state spending by 3.3 percent next fiscal year with a $57.9 billion budget that mirrors many of Gov. Maura Healey's ideas for tapping new funding sources and drives up outlays on the expectation that flat state tax collections will begin to rise again.
Top House Democrats unveiled plans to invest $500 million in the emergency assistance family shelter system in the next fiscal year, hundreds of millions of dollars less than the Healey administration's projection of costs.
BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey's budget team expects a $90 million funding gap associated with the migrant family shelter crisis, even after draining a large state reserve account full of COVID relief and state surplus funds, according to new plans.
BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey's budget team expects a $90 million funding gap associated with the migrant family shelter crisis, even after draining a large state reserve account full of COVID relief and state surplus funds, according to new plans.
The group said border communities and interior states lack the infrastructure to take on this strain on their own.