US DATA: National Governors Association Fiscal Survey finds fiscal 2011
“will present a slight improvement” but still have “considerable”
stress. 35 states enacted budgets with higher general fund spending but
36 states forecast lower general fund spending. Fiscal 2010 general fund
expenditures were $612.6b and fiscal 2011 state enacted budgets call for
$645.1 billion in general fund spending, a 5.3 percent increase.