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Despite a rosy budget picture, lawmakers have more requests for spending than cash available

Public education and social services are chewing up most of the extra revenue.

(Rick Bowmer | AP file photo) Utah lawmakers will soon gather at the state Capitol to begin the process of setting the final budget for the next fiscal year. Despite projections showing they'll have more than a billion dollars in extra revenue to spend, public education and social services will take up a majority of that revenue.