With a potential budget surplus looming, there are different sounds coming out of Tallahassee this year. Instead of talk of cuts and freezes, there are proposals to increase budgets in education, to give raises to teachers and bonuses to state employees.

And one thing we've been hearing a lot in this discussion is that state employees haven't had a raise in six years.Well, thanks to a reader's question about that, PolitiFact Florida decided to check that out and PolitiFact's Angie Holan talks about what they found with WUSF's Craig Kopp.