A six-day shutdown of the New Jersey state government was set to end today, after Gov. Jon S. Corzine, a Democrat, struck a budget deal with the Democrat-controlled Legislature, the Associated Press reported. The deal, whose specifics are to be announced this afternoon, would close a $4.5-billion budget gap by raising the state’s sales tax by one percentage point, a measure supported by the governor but initially opposed by legislative leaders. Most public colleges and universities in New Jersey have been unaffected by the shutdown this week (The Chronicle, July 5), although their officials had feared they would be forced to close or to borrow money to keep operating if the budget battle stretched into next week.
July 6, 2006
Budget Deal in N.J. Ends Shutdown That Could Have Affected Colleges
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