Following years of budget deficits and mid-year spending cuts, the Justice administration Wednesday unveiled a $4.35 billion “turn-the-corner” general revenue budget for 2018-19, with $135 million of increased spending for tourism, economic development and social services — and the first across-the-board pay raises for teachers and public employees in four years.

Unlike last year, when Justice proposed $400 million of tax hikes to close massive budget shortfalls — a plan summarily rejected by the Republican-controlled Legislature — his 2018-19 budget proposal includes no tax increases.

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