Balancing State Budgets

Balancing State Budgets

Failure to close California's budget shortfall may force the state to issue billions of dollars in IOUs. An update on how states are struggling to balance their budgets in uncertain economic times.

Failure to close California's budget shortfall may force the state to issue billions of dollars in IOUs. An update on how states are struggling to balance their budgets in uncertain economic times.

Guests

Joe Mathews

Irvine Senior Fellow at The New America Foundation. He is a former reporter for The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Chris Edwards

Director, Tax Policy Studies, Cato Institute. He is the creator of the website 'down sizing the federal government.'

Corina Eckl

Fiscal Program Director, National Conference of State Legislatures

Nicholas Johnson

Director of the State Fiscal Project at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

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