{"id":24088,"date":"2011-01-20T02:29:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T02:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/from_the_did_you_know_department_on_the_wisconsin_state_budget\/"},"modified":"2011-01-20T02:29:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T02:29:07","slug":"from_the_did_you_know_department_on_the_wisconsin_state_budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24088","title":{"rendered":"From the Did You Know Department, on the Wisconsin State Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin&#8217;s deficit, using the tougher GAAP measure, was $2.94 billion in 2010, though the state officially posted a general fund balance of $89.6 million. That gap &#8211; call it the GAAP gap &#8211; has been growing for years.<\/p>\n<p>How bad is it?<\/p>\n<p>Under this measure, Wisconsin&#8217;s budget hole is second only to Illinois per capita. The state&#8217;s bond rating from Moody&#8217;s is lower than 33 states.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/opinion\/113634944.html\">The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin&#8217;s deficit, using the tougher GAAP measure, was $2.94 billion in 2010, though the state officially posted a general fund balance of $89.6 million. That gap &#8211; call it the GAAP gap &#8211; has been growing for years. How bad<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24088\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}