The brutal Lurie budget: Cuts for everyone except the cops and the very rich

This is how brutal, needlessly brutal, Mayor Daniel Lurie’s budget proposal is shaping up to be:

At a hearing Wednesday, both the budget director and the director of the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development admitted that most of the impacts of Lurie’s cuts will fall on low-income communities and communities of color.

Budget Director Sofia Kittler said that there is “no fat” in the budget. The cuts, she said, are just “things we can’t afford.”…

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