But voters did not say how the cash-strapped state would pay for it.

Critics, including Mr. Florio, have worried aloud about how the cash-strapped state would finance the takeover.

For cash-strapped states and harried administrators, Internet schools look sweet indeed.

The annual upkeep for all of this has been estimated at $3 million, an outlay he may well find difficult to maintain in his reportedly cash-strapped state.

He proposed using $25 billion of that in his first two years as a bailout to cash-strapped states that would otherwise have to raise taxes or cut spending.

But just as the White House is increasing financing to prevent bioterrorism, cash-strapped states are cutting public health budgets.

Governors and taxpayers in cash-strapped states are increasingly taking note.

Consider: A cash-strapped state and 1.3 million residents without health insurance, their hospital costs reimbursed by aforementioned state.

Two years into her four-year term, her cash-strapped state is being squeezed from all directions.

The General Accounting Office reported that at least 26 cash-strapped states had failed to inspect water systems that often.