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November 20, 2014

$2B shortfall seen for state budget

OLYMPIA (AP) — Washington state lawmakers are facing a projected budget gap of more than $2 billion for the next two-year budget ending in mid-2017, in large part due to a new voter-approved initiative to shrink class sizes.

A four-year outlook released Wednesday by the Washington state Economic and Revenue Forecast Council showed that the projected shortfall for the following biennium ending in 2019 would be even larger, at $4.7 billion.


 
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