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(Salt Lake City-AP) -- Hundreds of state jobs were on the edge today as state lawmakers met in a special session to close a $117 million hole in the state's already troubled budget.
The Republican-dominated Legislature was debating a plan that included the job cuts in a 4.3 percent across-the-board trim of department budgets. Lawmakers also proposed tapping the state's tobacco fund.
Public education and Medicaid appeared to be unaffected by the plan, though lawmakers were considering a 1.1 percent reduction in higher education funding.
It was not immediately clear this afternoon how many jobs would be lost or when workers would lose them.
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