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New state budget commissioner faces big challenge

by Cathy Wurzer, Minnesota Public Radio
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St. Paul, Minn. — Gov. Mark Dayton's pick to be commissioner of Management and Budget, Jim Schowalter, faces a massive challenge. He will have just six weeks to come up with a plan to solve the projected $6.2 billion deficit in Minnesota's next two-year state budget. MPR's Cathy Wurzer talked with Schowalter about his new job.

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