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More into health and pension benefit plans. now governor scott walker of wisconsin says that this legislation is needed to help close a $137 million short-term budget deficit and a $3.6 billion deficit over the next two years. but teachers and other union workers are very angry. >> we have a mortgage to pay every month. we have electric bills and what i've heard is it's about 13% net drop in income with benefits and wages. that's what we'd be losing every month. and so then we have to start picking and choosing how we're going to make our house payments and still do other things. >> reporter: ...

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Let's go to texas. an estimate the $5 billion to be cut from these programs. arts education, prekindergarten programs, teacher incentive pay and also technology jobs and cut jobs to follow. again, they're saying everything is possibly on the table there as well. colorado $570 million in state budget cuts. $ $375 million from the public education system there. approximately $500 less per student that they're going to get from the state. a $36 million cut in higher education. that's a lot of money and thousands of teach eers could fe layoffs. to california now. california, the budget matters the...