{"id":3079,"date":"2011-12-01T18:24:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T18:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3079"},"modified":"2011-12-01T18:24:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T18:24:52","slug":"in_the_black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3079","title":{"rendered":"In The Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota policymakers received a bit of unexpected good news today when the <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2011\/12\/01\/reax-economic-forecast\/\">latest budget forecast revealed a surplus of $876 million<\/a>. As late as yesterday, most observers were predicting a deficit of as much as $1 billion. State law requires that all of the surplus be used to replenish reserve funds, so it&#8217;s unlikely that any of last summer&#8217;s budget cuts will be restored. And the good times are not back by any means. According to the forecast, Minnesota will have a deficit of at least $1.3 billion in the next biennium. I&#8217;d like to think that this surplus will give lawmakers some breathing room to consider permanent solutions to our fiscal instability, but that almost certainly won&#8217;t happen. Instead, this is a temporary cease-fire in the ongoing battle to define the scope of state government. In the meantime, the Vikings&#8217; chances of receiving some level of public funding for a new stadium have probably improved slightly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota policymakers received a bit of unexpected good news today when the latest budget forecast revealed a surplus of $876 million. As late as yesterday, most observers were predicting a deficit of as much as $1 billion. State law requires that all of the surplus be used to replenish reserve funds, so it&#8217;s unlikely that <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3079' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-NF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}