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What's in the President's budget? State by state analysis.

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FLORIDA

 

The President’s budget makes drastic cuts in funding for programs that matter to families in Florida.  These cuts will shift responsibility for funding these priorities onto the already cash-strapped state.  Since Florida will not be able to provide the same level of services with less federal funding, the budget cuts will force the state either to reduce funding for schools and leave more people hungry, homeless, cold and uninsured, or to raise state taxes. 

 

 

EDUCATION:  The President’s budget would reduce funding for education and training programs in Florida in 2006, with the cuts getting bigger in later years.  No program, including K-12, will be spared. 

 

  • Florida will lose more than $565 million in total elementary and secondary education spending[1];
  • Funding for special education programs will be cut by more than $414 million in Florida;
  • Florida school improvement programs will lose more than $182 million; and
  • Vocational and adult education programs will be cut by more than $320 million in Florida.

 

 

FAMILY SERVICES:  Programs providing needed services to low-income families in Florida face major cuts in 2006, with the cuts getting bigger over time.  Under the President’s budget proposal, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), programs for abused and neglected children, Head Start, and child care assistance programs all face steep cuts.

 

  • Florida will lose $31 million in WIC funding, and 31,400 people will be cut from the program;
  • In Florida, Children and Family services (including Head Start and programs for abused and neglected children) would lose more than $133 million; 
  • Nearly 1,000 children in Florida will lose access to Head Start in 2006[2], and 4,600 will lose access to the program in 2010; and
  • In Florida, 22,600 children will lose child care assistance in 2009.

 

 

HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT:  The President’s budget targets housing and community development programs in Florida for funding cuts in 2006 and beyond. 

 

  • Almost 16,000 families in Florida will lose rental assistance vouchers;
  • The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) will be cut by $2.2 million in Florida; and
  • In Florida, Community Development programs will be cut by more than $390 million. 

 

 

HEALTH:  The budget would cut funding in Florida for HIV/AIDS treatment services, including funding to help those with HIV/AIDS purchase drugs.  President Bush has also proposed major cuts to the Medicaid program in Florida

 

  • Florida will lose almost $62 million in HIV/AIDS funding;
  • Medicaid funding for Florida will be cut by more than $2 billion[3]; and 
  • Almost 99,000 children or 20,000 seniors in Florida could be covered by the Medicaid funding cuts proposed in 2010. 

 

 

PENTAGON:  While taxpayers in Florida would lose local services, they will pay increasingly more for the Pentagon.

 

  • Florida will spend $1 billion for the proposed increase in military spending[4]; and
  • Almost $8 billion of what Congress has so far allocated for the Iraq War will come from Florida.

 

 

 

 



[1] Unless otherwise specified, all data is from analysis done by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, see http://www.cbpp.org/2-22-05bud-reportandtables.pdf

 

[2] National Head Start Association, see http://www.nhsa.org/download/research/SpReportEnrCuts.pdf

 

[4] Pentagon spending figures from the National Priorities Project, see http://www.nationalpriorities.org/impact05/budgetpub.html

 

 

 

 
         
   

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