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A Short History of the Rainy Day Fund

A House committee may vote this week to spend more than $4 billion of the state's Rainy Day Fund to help close the state's current budget gap. As the fight heats up over whether to draw from the $9.4 billion fund, Matt Largey of KUT News takes a look at where all that money came from anyway.

By Matt Largey, KUT News
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A House committee may vote this week to spend more than $4 billion of the state's Rainy Day Fund to help close the state's current budget gap. As the fight heats up over whether to draw from the $9.4 billion fund, Matt Largey of KUT News takes a look at where all that money came from anyway.

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