Caregivers and Property Tax Payers Likely Big Winners in Budget Outcome

The state’s cash reserve fund, caregivers, people who pay property tax and job training programs will apparently be the big winners in the $9.7 billion two-year state budget being debated by the Nebraska Legislature. That’s the word from the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee Vice Chair Sen. Anna Wishart of Lincoln. She said those “winners” follow the priorities of the committee whose sole…