Comparisons of Current Budget Proposals and Final Past Year Budgets
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Budget Category	FY 01	FY 08	FY 09 GAA	FY 09*	FY 10 Current*	FY 11 Governor*	FY 11 Legislature/ Conference W/FMAP*	FY 11 Legislature/ Conference W/O FMAP*	FY 11 Post-Veto	FY 11 Post-Veto Minus FY 01
Education	7,683,448	6,860,415	7,084,833	7,026,975	6,756,429	6,732,838	6,519,111	6,453,543	6,453,379	-1,230,069
Environment and Recreation	321,712	236,818	236,184	223,175	209,794	185,725	187,438	177,236	176,756	-144,956
Health Care	10,027,020	12,718,292	13,168,847	12,859,645	13,357,334	13,775,539	13,747,127	13,578,216	13,534,101	3,507,081
Human Services	3,806,406	3,530,076	3,562,116	3,503,951	3,388,824	3,347,106	3,356,612	3,291,791	3,291,073	-515,333
Infrastructure, Housing and Economic Development	2,078,543	1,566,218	1,471,673	1,523,045	1,705,879	1,620,471	1,652,039	1,637,888	1,620,303	-458,240
Law and Public Safety	2,654,364	2,691,966	2,598,758	2,598,584	2,459,706	2,299,096	2,304,347	2,268,605	2,265,399	-388,965
Local Aid	1,807,263	1,402,681	1,372,387	1,288,823	980,154	964,670	927,401	925,212	925,212	-882,051
Other	4,741,202	4,393,517	4,305,632	4,131,600	4,051,205	3,972,589	3,951,924	3,941,436	3,912,190	-829,012
Totals	33,119,958	33,399,983	33,800,430	33,155,798	32,909,325	32,898,034	32,645,999	32,273,927	32,178,413	-941,545

All numbers in table expressed in thousands of dollars.

*The MassBudget FY 2009 - FY2011 budget totals include funds from the ARRA State Fiscal Stabilization Fund. Technically these funds are not part of the budget but in practice they essentially are. They were used mostly to restore budgeted funding that was cut in Higher Education and Chapter 70. MassBudget also makes additional adjustments to all current FY 2011 budget proposals to allow for more accurate comparisons to prior years. These adjustments are noted when data are displayed in the "Search By Line Items and Categories" tool and are described in Appendix A of each of the MassBudget’s FY 2011 Budget Monitors.

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Comparisons of Current Budget Proposals and Final Past Year Budgets (In Thousands of Dollars)

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Comparisons of Current Budget Proposals and Final Past Year Budgets
(In Thousands of Dollars)