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Rising costs of living and health care are consuming Utahns’ budgets. Here’s what lawmakers propose
Brittany Bringhurst has been climbing a ladder since 2009 when she bought her starter home in Las Vegas for $150,000, which eventually led to her move to her multi-generational, $500,000 Kaysville home. But that path doesn’t exist for her children, she said at a news conference in front of the Utah State Capitol surrounded by lawmakers and community leaders advocating for affordability solutions in the state. Now, legislators are debating cuts to Medicaid and other social services that would impact families like hers, she said. Bringhurst’s mother-in-law, for example, will soon need ...
