After back-to-back years of $1 billion state budget surpluses, policy makers on Beacon Hill may be in for a jolt.
An analysis from a government watchdog group said Massachusetts is facing slower revenue growth and rising costs including the massive education reform law.
It adds up to a projected $880 million gap between anticipated revenue and required spending in the budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1st, according to the report from the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation.
WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Heath Fahle, the foundation’s policy director and author of the report.
