NATIONAL BRIEFING / NEW YORK
Times Wire Reports
New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg proposed cutting the city budget by about $1 billion and may propose raising the city sales tax to help close a $4-billion shortfall for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
Officials may fire 14,274 teachers if the state doesn’t pass along $770 million in federal aid for education in each of the next two years, Bloomberg said.
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