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State Budget Hurts Working Families While Protecting Big Tobacco and Big Business  

The Coalition for Labor Engagement and Accountable Revenue (CLEAR Coalition), an unprecedented coalition of labor organizations representing over 1.1 million hardworking Pennsylvania families, expressed significant concern about the final 2010-2011 state budget adopted today by the General Assembly.

"It is disheartening that lawmakers chose to balance this year's budget on the backs of some of Pennsylvania's most vulnerable individuals like our senior citizens, children, and individuals with physical and mental disabilities rather than enacting common sense tax reforms," said Rick Bloomingdale, President of the PA AFL-CIO.

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