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By Matthew Yglesias on Mar 12, 2011 at 12:30 pm

Is employee compensation driving state budget woes? No:

In the short-term, the problem for state budgets is that the recession caused a drop in tax revenues. In the longer-term, the main issue is Medicaid costs.

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