Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas praised the passage of the 2016-2017 State Budget, which includes a middle-class tax cut, an increase to the State's minimum wage, paid family leave, and increased funding for education and mass transit.

Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos on Friday tabled to Parliament the final draft of the 2016 state budget designed to combine fiscal responsibility with social justice and the redistribution of burdens.