Idaho Gov. Butch Otter delivers his State of the State and budget address to a join session of the Idaho Legislature in the House Chambers at the Idaho Statehouse on Monday afternoon.
Joe Jaszewski — jjaszewski@idahostatesman.com
This article was produced by StateImpact Idaho, a collaboration between Boise State Public Radio (KBSX News 91.5) and NPR. StateImpact Idaho reporters Molly Messick and Emilie Ritter Saunders travel the state to explain how economic issues affect you. Visit stateimpact.npr.org/idaho.
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Mike Ferguson says the budget shortchanges schools, Medicaid and some small counties for the sake of a business tax break and a rainy-day fund. After a long search, a single mom finds work.
Gov. Butch Otter’s proposed budget would spend about $84 million more in fiscal year 2014 than in fiscal 2013, boosting state general-fund spending to $2.78 billion. Mike Ferguson, director of the Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy and the state’s former chief economist, says the budget proposal doesn’t put “priorities in the right place.”
Follow the link at right to read a Q&A with Ferguson on stateimpact.npr.org.
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