{"id":16733,"date":"2013-04-05T15:16:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T21:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=16733"},"modified":"2013-04-05T15:16:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T21:16:09","slug":"what-idahos-2-78-billion-budget-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2013\/04\/05\/what-idahos-2-78-billion-budget-looks-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What Idaho&#8217;s $2.78 Billion Budget Looks Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Idaho lawmakers approved a <a href=\"http:\/\/legislature.idaho.gov\/budget\/publications\/GFBudgetUpdate\/BudgetUpdate.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">$2.78 billion budget<\/a> for fiscal year 2014 that begins in July. That&#8217;s an $81 million increase, 2.9 percent, over fiscal year 2013.<\/p>\n<p>As the chart shows, nearly half of the state&#8217;s annual budget goes to fund K-12 public schools. When you include funding for colleges, universities, and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/legislature.idaho.gov\/budget\/publications\/GFBudgetUpdate\/BudgetUpdate.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">other education<\/a>&#8220;, that&#8217;s more than 60 percent of Idaho&#8217;s budget.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/a\/boisestate.edu\/spreadsheet\/oimg?key=0AiLU6Cs5LWZIdDBUb2k4RjdYV0hyUTI0SkZGQVpsZ1E&amp;oid=1&amp;zx=l1xp47te0f5r\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"source\">Data Source: Legislative Services Office | Chart: Emilie Ritter Saunders<\/p>\n<p>While the overall annual spending will increase 2.9 percent in fiscal year 2014, some agencies will see sharp funding declines.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Idaho Department of Labor will operate with 30.7 percent less beginning in July. That&#8217;s a $133,700 change. The Office of Drug Policy, housed within the governor&#8217;s office, will have 73.1 percent less, or $784,800, in the next fiscal year. The Secretary of State&#8217;s Office, which handles elections, business registration, and campaign finance reports, will have 13.7 percent, or $316,900 less.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the complete budget publication from the Legislative Services Office <a href=\"http:\/\/legislature.idaho.gov\/budget\/publications\/GFBudgetUpdate\/BudgetUpdate.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idaho lawmakers approved a $2.78 billion budget for fiscal year 2014 that begins in July. That&#8217;s an $81 million increase, 2.9 percent, over fiscal year 2013. As the chart shows, nearly half of the state&#8217;s annual budget goes to fund K-12 public schools. When you include funding for colleges, universities, and &#8220;other education&#8220;, that&#8217;s more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[210,56],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16772,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16733\/revisions\/16772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}