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Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos on the 2011 Legislature
February 10, 2011
In a Bob Graham Center exclusive, Senate President Mike Haridopolos offered an inside look at the upcoming 2011 Florida legislative session on February 10.
The event was a wide-ranging discussion of the many dire issues facing the Sunshine State in a legislative session beginning in March 2011.
Among the most pressing problems: an estimated $3.6 billion budget shortfall, an unemployment trust fund that’s in the red, and the highest jobless rate in three decades. While the legislature’s own economists predict a nearly 7 percent growth in revenues next year after four straight years of negative growth, the new money isn’t nearly enough to cover expected increases in Medicaid and other crucial services like education, health care, public safety and transportation.
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