claim: "new jersey alone, my home state, is facing a ten-and-a-half billion dollar shortfall in its 2012 fiscal budget. this means more cuts in state and local spending for education, which means our kids are hurt."
author: robert menendez
evidence_1: aug 10, 2017 ... states should identify and make investments in infrastructure that provide ... tax  cuts will spur little to no economic growth and take money away from ... and more  than half of the states have raised their gas taxes, a key ... states and localities  spend the vast majority of their capital dollars — 9 out of 10 — on ...
evidence_2: says the u.s. senate has passed "a budget" over the last three years "called the  budget control act." — politifact new jersey on sunday, october 14th, 2012 ... " new jersey alone, my home state, is facing a ten-and-a-half billion dollar shortfall  ... cuts in state and local spending for education, which means our kids are hurt.
evidence_3: oct 15, 2015 ... the cash assistance safety net for the nation's poorest families has ... funds  matched half or more of every dollar of cash assistance that a state provided ...  services and instead made cuts in basic assistance, child care, and work  programs. ... states spend only about a quarter of their state and federal tanf ...
evidence_4: the national alliance on mental illness (nami) is the nation's largest grassroots  ... depression, or bipolar disorder.1 about one in 10 children live with a serious  mental disorder.2 ... non-medicaid state mental health spending totaled nearly  $1.6 billion dollars. .... what do cuts of this magnitude mean in human terms ?
evidence_5: fewer than half of the states have laws allowing them to intervene in municipal ...  new jersey pared back on financial aid to troubled cities, including its capital, ....  years as the federal government slashes spending to reduce the federal budget  deficit. ... to define municipal distress and crisis, these states use different fiscal ...