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Impact in Idaho

 Some examples of how automatic budget cuts could affect Idaho:

EDUCATION

• About $3.7 million in funding for primary and secondary education, putting about 50 teacher and aide jobs at risk. In addition, about 5,000 fewer students would be served and approximately 30 fewer schools would receive funding.

• About $2.9 million in funds for about 30 teachers, aides, and staff who help children with disabilities.

• About 170 fewer low-income students would receive aid to help them finance the costs of college, and about 40 fewer students will get work-study jobs that help them pay for college.

• Head Start and Early Head Start services would be eliminated for about 200 children.

ENVIRONMENT

• About $1.2 million to ensure clean water and air quality, as well as prevent pollution from pesticides and hazardous waste.

• About $857,000 in grants for fish and wildlife protection.

DEFENSE

• About 2,000 civilian Department of Defense employees would be furloughed, reducing gross pay by around $6.8 million in total.

• About $1.7 million to operate Army bases would be cut, and about $1 million from Air Force operations.

LAW ENFORCEMENT

• About $82,000 in Justice Assistance Grants that support law enforcement, prosecution and courts, crime prevention and education, corrections and community corrections, drug treatment and enforcement, and crime victim and witness initiatives.

EMPLOYMENT

• About $280,000 in funding for job search assistance, referral and placement, meaning around 10,490 fewer people will get the help and skills they need to find employment.

• Child care for as many as 100 disadvantaged and vulnerable children of working parents.

HEALTH

• About $61,000 for vaccines for diseases such as measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, whooping cough, influenza and Hepatitis B, affecting about 890 children.

• About $150,000 to help the state respond to public health threats.

• About $340,000 in grants to help prevent and treat substance abuse, resulting in around 400 fewer admissions to substance abuse programs.

• About $41,000 for health departments in the state, resulting in about 1,000 fewer HIV tests.

• About $33,000 for services to victims of domestic violence, resulting in up to 100 fewer victims being served.

• About $202,000 in funds that provide meals for seniors.