Robin Prunty
Robin Prunty
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The trend of increased state revenues has resulted in a level of financial flexibility not seen in the sector over the past five years, and is helping many states restore structural budgetary balance and begin to rebuild reserves. In addition to the tax-reduction measures, this revenue growth has also led to new funding initiatives for education, transportation, infrastructure, and other areas that had been restrained from 2001-2004.
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States are in much better financial conditions than several years ago.
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Our biggest problem when we started was that we were running out of food. Once we started serving food, and they could smell it, they came.
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The kids are learning from us, we're learning from them. They don't have any inhibitions. They don't have the fears.