{"pk":46701,"title":"Arizona Budget 2015: Incremental Movement for Children","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Arizona’s Fiscal Year 2015 budget showed modest revenue improvements, but the Joint Legislative Budget committee’s three-year forecast continues to show an overall weak budget picture moving forward and a structural deficit, after one-time monies are removed.  State mandated and politically forced spending formed the basis of growth areas related to child abuse and neglect as well as the inflation-funding formula for K-12 education.  Medicaid expansion, narrowly passed in 2013, seems to have made possible the resolution of a 30-year lawsuit regarding underserving mentally ill.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Western State Budget Report, Arizona, fiscal policy, taxes, Child Welfare, Foster Care, K-12 Education"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/17f778vn","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"David","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wells","name_suffix":"","institution":"Arizona State University","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2016-02-12T14:50:14Z","date_accepted":"2016-02-12T14:50:14Z","date_published":"2016-01-01T00:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cjpp/article/46701/galley/35347/download/"}]}