Deal signs $19.9 billion budget for fiscal 2014 | www.ajc.com

Gov. Nathan Deal Tuesday morning signed a $19.9 billion budget for the coming year that increases spending $600 million but doesn’t provide cost-of-living raises for the state’s 200,000 employees and teachers.

As in every year since the start of the Great Recession, the state budget includes spending cuts in nearly every department, from agriculture to technical colleges. At the same time, it funnels millions more into k-12 education and public health care.

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