Smart, driven moms balance Michigan’s budget

How do you solve a problem like the economy?

Let moms handle it!

A group of women in Michigan — armed with “mom intuition” — joined forces to creatively tackle the state’s pressing money woes. Without raising taxes or cutting back on education, they helped the state save $1.09 billion, by such measures as ending the state fair, closing several prison camps and reducing revenue-sharing payments to local governments. Find out how they did it:


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I love the initiative the women took along with their innovation. I wonder what would happen if more of our large financial problems got a completely outside opinion about which items should be cut. Most of America is tightening their household budget and we can apply that same discipline and creativity at a larger scale.

My family got out of $50k in debt in less than 3 years by reducing expense and realizing the savings against our debt. If we can do that then count me in next time someone is putting a national expense cutting plan together :)

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