State officials began the 2011-13 budget process facing a more than $1.2 billion  ... This year's state budget process was painful, the result of more than a decade  of ... But it also eliminated the state's structural deficit for the first time since 1996,  ...
Jul 17, 2011 ... It's the first time the fiscal bureau has determined that a budget ... their 2011-'13  budget eliminates the state's long-standing structural deficit. ... budget eliminated  the structural deficit for the "first time in decades" as Mostly True ...
Sep 3, 2011 ... of more than a decade of fiscal denial by governors and lawmakers of ... But it  also eliminated the state's structural deficit for the first time since 1996, provid- ing  hope ... State officials began the 2011-13 budget process facing.
Sep 22, 2011 ... That budget closed a $3.6 billion shortfall from the previous fiscal year, and also,  for the first time in many years, closed the state's structural deficit. ... swift  approval to the $66 billion 2011-'13 state budget, which was signed .... budget  eliminates the structural deficit 'for the first time in decades,'" July 3, 2011.
Alberta Darling · Says the 2011-13 state budget eliminates the structural deficit " for the first time in decades." — PolitiFact Wisconsin on Sunday, July 3rd, 2011.
Says the 2011-13 state budget eliminates the structural deficit "for the first time in decades."