Short-term budgets keep state afloat
“Baker and legislative leaders have agreed to maintain level spending for local aid and Chapter 70 funding this fiscal year, but that doesn’t protect against cuts to other agencies and programs.
‘If there are cuts to public programs it would be the worst thing for deepening our recession, because this is money that wouldn’t be spent in state,” said Phineas Baxandall, a senior policy analyst with the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center. “We need commitments to protect those programs.'”