{"id":13066,"date":"2013-01-07T16:52:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T21:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=13066"},"modified":"2013-01-07T16:52:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T21:52:04","slug":"calendar-year-begins-with-deficit-of-25-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2013\/01\/07\/calendar-year-begins-with-deficit-of-25-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Calendar Year Begins With Deficit Of $25 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Hampshire is beginning the calendar year with a \u201c$25 million dollar problem,\u201d Legislative Budget Assistant Jeffry Pattison told legislative budget writers at a fiscal orientation on Monday. \u00a0Pattison says that in context, that&#8217;s a &#8220;$25 million dollar deficit on a $5.2 billion dollar budget,&#8221; which, he says, he thinks the state can manage.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Pattison says, the deficit could change as pending budget uncertainties are resolved &#8212; such as $36.8 million in disputed Medical Enhancement Taxes which may yet be paid by certain hospitals, and other pending lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, an expert on the fiscal cliff \u00a0told budget writers that spending cuts at the federal level could cost New Hampshire businesses and governments as much as $32 million this \u00a0fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>The briefings on fiscal year 2013\u00a0year will help prepare lawmakers as they set out to craft the biennial budget\u00a0for fiscal years 2014-2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Hampshire is beginning the calendar year with a \u201c$25 million dollar problem,\u201d Legislative Budget Assistant Jeffry Pattison told legislative budget writers at a fiscal orientation on Monday. \u00a0Pattison says that in context, that&#8217;s a &#8220;$25 million dollar deficit on a $5.2 billion dollar budget,&#8221; which, he says, he thinks the state can manage. Additionally, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[474,55,53],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13068,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13066\/revisions\/13068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}