McDonnell unveils $50 million job creation agenda
January 26, 2010 | Virginia News
The plan would be funded, in part, through cuts to the Department of Corrections, and re-directing money from the state employee retirement system. But that leaves the governor in a tricky spot: having to spend $50 million to create jobs, while cutting more than $4 billion in other state spending.
Virginia's budget gap, still requires more cuts to transportation, education, and public safety - which advocates say goes hand-in-hand, with jobs.
"If you don't have a safe community, it's gonna be very difficult to, first of all, provide for safe schools, and also create the incentives to bring businesses into a community that create jobs," said Dana Schrad of the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police.
