MississippiRepublicanHaleyBarboursaidhisstatewouldhave to rewriteitsbudgetand would have tospend $50 million to $100 million to get its additional $98 million ineducationgrants.
Looming public-spending cuts could cause problems: Mr Gill points out that many firms depend on stategrants to get started, especially with other funding harder to come by.
The reforms provided instead for fixed, finite, block grants to the states, with broad state flexibility to adopt changes to get dependents out to work.