{"id":1819,"date":"2010-03-09T11:50:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T15:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2010-03-09T11:50:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T15:50:38","slug":"florida-v-georgia-in-budget-crises-not-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1819","title":{"rendered":"Florida v. Georgia &#8212; in budget crises, not football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s revenue-estimating conference in Tallahassee&nbsp;is probably going&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2010\/03\/09\/1520135\/economists-to-estimate-floridas.html\">to confirm prior state revenue estimates<\/a>, which are slightly better for 2010-11 than 2009-10, but that&#8217;s like saying two broken legs are better than two broken legs and a broken floating rib. The state revenues are still far below 2006, and there are three sources of pressure on the state budget: increased demand for Medicaid, the federal maintenance-of-effort requirement for education (even with the waiver for absolute maintenance), and declining property-tax collections that support K-12 school districts. <\/p>\n<p>Last year we kept reminding ourselves that we weren&#8217;t in California. And this year,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/get-schooled-blog\/2010\/03\/08\/if-school-budget-cuts-depended-on-february-revenues-start-cutting\/\">Georgia&#8217;s picture is worse<\/a>. Plus a few other states I could mention. But that&#8217;s cold comfort: Schadenfreude doesn&#8217;t pay the bills. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Updated (5:45 pm)<\/strong>: Yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/edr.state.fl.us\/conferences\/generalrevenue\/grsummary.pdf\">today&#8217;s Florida state revenue estimates<\/a> are almost identical to the last round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s revenue-estimating conference in Tallahassee&nbsp;is probably going&nbsp;to confirm prior state revenue estimates, which are slightly better for 2010-11 than 2009-10, but that&#8217;s like saying two broken legs are better than two broken legs and a broken floating rib. The state revenues are still far below 2006, and there are three sources of pressure on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-tl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}