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Kotek Budget To Redirect Funds For Rainy Day Account

(Salem, OR) -- Oregon Governor Tina Kotek says housing and homelessness, mental health and addiction care, and education and child care are the top priorities in her proposed budget. She wants to redirect 765-million dollars that would have gone into the two-billion dollar rainy fund toward other programs. Kotek wants to spend one-billion dollars on the housing crisis along with new investments in mental health and addiction care. 100-million dollars would be spent on literacy programs for preschool and elementary school students. 100-million dollars would be spent on child care programs in the state. The budget now goes to the Legislature for consideration.

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