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What's The [DATA] Point? $85.2 Billion


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What's The Data Point? Episode 1 -- $85.2 Billion. [You can download What's The Data Point? wherever you get your podcasts, including on iTunes]

In the first episode of What's The Data Point? from Gotham Gazette and Citizens Budget Commission, we discuss the city's recently-adopted $85.2 billion budget for fiscal year 2018, which begins July 1, 2017.

Ben Max of GG (@TweetBenMax) and Maria Doulis (@MariaDoulis) of CBC discuss the largest pieces of the budget pie, risks to city finances, contentious items that were resolved, and more. Listen:

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by Ben Max, Gotham Gazette
     

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