{"id":6017,"date":"2014-11-12T03:18:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T08:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=6017"},"modified":"2015-01-30T23:56:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T04:56:02","slug":"officials-kansas-faces-279m-budget-gap-by-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2014\/11\/officials-kansas-faces-279m-budget-gap-by-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials: Kansas Faces $279M Budget Gap By July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Kansas_flag.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6023\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Kansas_flag-300x179.gif\" alt=\"Kansas_flag\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Kansas_flag-300x179.gif 300w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Kansas_flag-150x89.gif 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the next fiscal year, the new projection was $5.8 billion in revenues \u2014 short of the nearly $6.2 billion that legislative researchers had been assuming in their unofficial forecasts. The projected shortfall of $436 million is about 7 percent, and higher than the $282 million gap estimated unofficially.<\/p>\n<p>The new revenue projection for the fiscal year beginning in July 2016 is a little less than $5.9 billion \u2014 again, short of the nearly $6.4 billion legislative researchers had assumed. But the new forecast assumes that spending by that time will be in line with the lower revenues.<\/p>\n<p>The projections also assume Kansas will continue to see modest economic growth, said Raney Gilliland, director of the nonpartisan Kansas Legislative Research Department.During the governor&#8217;s race, Democratic challenger Paul Davis argued the tax cuts championed by Brownback were wrecking the state&#8217;s finances. Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, a Topeka Democrat, predicted the state will have to cut spending on schools and social services and divert money from highway projects.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is absolutely no good way out of this,&#8221; Hensley said. &#8220;You can&#8217;t find enough efficiencies or growth to make up these devastating numbers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/11\/12\/kansas-budget-gap_n_6143172.html\">Officials: Kansas Faces $279M Budget Gap By July<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the next fiscal year, the new projection was $5.8 billion in revenues \u2014 short of the nearly $6.2 billion that legislative researchers had been assuming in their unofficial forecasts. The projected shortfall of $436 million is about 7 percent, and higher than the $282 million gap estimated unofficially. The new revenue projection for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,22,7],"tags":[24,70,26,1765],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6017"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6025,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017\/revisions\/6025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}