“The governor’s plan slashes $3.1 billion from an estimated $58.8 billion state budget largely by cutting funding to city governments and services… The Ohio Consumers’ Counsel is slated to lose 51 percent. The Department of Education loses 10.2 percent. A local think tank estimates that 51,000 state jobs are at stake… [Kasich] won the 2010 election, barely, on a job creation platform. His budget is called “The Jobs Budget.”
