It's not a very good time to be a prisoner in the United States. ... But a combination  of strict sentencing guidelines, budget shortfalls and a ... less likely to rehabilitate  their inhabitants--than in the past, many researchers say. ... is involved in the  criminal justice system in the United States than in any other developed country.
Dec 22, 2010 ... Listen Pawlenty wrestled with budget deficits, held line on taxes ... That's a  dramatic departure from 2003 -- when Pawlenty characterized the $4.5 billion  budget deficit ... Pawlenty's main governing principle was not to raise state taxes.  ... He also said Minnesota is in the same position as every other state in ...
These dramatic events for state budgets occurred in 2003, about 18 months ...  much less aggressively to budgetary shortfalls in the 2001 recession than in ....  their budget estimates, which is the CBO term for saying that the slowdown in the  ... “policy and other” factors that measures actions taken (or not taken) by state  and.
Oct 23, 2017 ... High-income taxpayers benefitted most from these tax cuts, with the top 1 ...  Despite promises from proponents of the tax cuts, evidence suggests that they  did not ... At the time, many policymakers — including President Bush and .... of  the Work of the State of the Joint Committee on Taxation to Model the ...
Jan 5, 2015 ... Not so anymore. ... State funding, meanwhile, plummeted from 32 percent to 23  percent during ... In 2003, student tuition covered 16.8 percent of the bills at ...  Left in the lurch, universities raised tuition to make up for the funding shortfall. ...  other free money has not kept pace with the cost of going to school.
Says the state’s budget shortfall is "not that much different" than it was in 2003.