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Posted by: Amelia Ferrell Knisely on Feb 2, 2016

Tennessee prison guards will receive a pay raise in a slew of state employee salary increases announced last night by Gov. Bill Haslam during his State of the State Address. The Republican governor, unveiling a $34.8 billion budget, focused much of his annual speech on education investment and revealing plans to invest $261 million in new money for K-12 education in areas ranging from teacher pay to adding a 12th month of state funding for teacher health insurance. Last year, he proposed expanding Medicaid to an additional 280,000 Tennesseans through the Affordable Care Act, but no mention of that was made in Monday's speech. Read more from the Times Free Press.