12:00 am
June 30, 2011
Stateline.org reports that Minnesota, Iowa, Oregon and Massachusetts have yet to meet the deadline for adopting a state budget.
Iowa and Oregon are likely to wrap up their work by today’s deadline; Massachusetts and Minnesota are likely to miss it.
Only Minnesota, however, faces the prospect of a government shutdown, which hasn’t happened on a protracted basis anywhere in the country since Pennsylvania experienced a nine-day state closure in 2007.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick signed a temporary measure buying that state an extra 10 days of operation.
The National Conference of State Legislature has a table detailing the budget status in the fifty states.
Washington handily beat the deadline, but ended the fiscal year in the red and with another big budget challenge ahead in January.
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