Day 10: UT Southwestern Loses Millions in State Funding
Throughout the month of August, The Texas Tribune is featuring 31 ways Texans' lives will change come Sept. 1, the date most bills passed by the Legislature — including the dramatically reduced budget — take effect. Check out our story calendar here.
Day 10: Losing $31 million in state aid leads the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas to lay off more than 100 employees and eliminate 250 vacant positions.
For Dallas' UT Southwestern Medical Center, the massive state budget cuts from the 2011 legislative session amounted to a double-whammy of reductions in both Medicaid dollars and higher education funding ...
Comments (6)
Ann Pittman-Thompson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The talk of job creation and a balanced budget is all smoke and mirrors in the state of Texas
Russell Stone via Texas Tribune on Facebook
You got that right Ann. It indeed is all smoke and mirrors down Texas way. I just don't get it. Gov. Perry has done nothing for education in his time in office, nothing.
Mary Lynn VanZandt Neill via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Now,we truly can make some cuts,probably,but not like this!!I see more 12 hour shifts and less accuracy in Patient Care if these things happen.
George Krieger via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I received this communication from TRS: The legislature decided it's okay for retired teachers to go back to full time teaching. Does that make sense with the cuts in funding that have caused so many teacher layoffs? No, not to me anyway.
Jeanne Moseley via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Job cuts at UT Southwestern Medical really hits home. Staff in oncology, research and radiology saved my life in 2005 when I was diagnosed with an agressive form of breast cancer. These cuts are truly a matter of life and death.
Some Othername
wow, that's almost 6 or 7 years of salary for the 3 or 4 top paid UT administrators; maybe they'll need a second job. They might consider managing better, even to the point of replacing energy wasting light bulbs, not watering parking lots while it rains etc too.