Christine Jordan SextonOctober 17, 2020
5min739
Some Florida Medicaid providers may be asked to do more with less.
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Christine Jordan SextonOctober 17, 2020
Jim RosicaAugust 14, 2019
6min331
"The economy's becoming winded."
Jim RosicaDecember 12, 2018
4min314
A healthy but also fragile economy led the Senate’s budget chief to tell fellow lawmakers they need to be “very, very conservative” in writing the state’s next yearly budget. Indeed, with chief legislative economist Amy Baker saying the state needs roughly $6 billion in new money over the next three years just to keep up, Sen. Rob […]
Jim RosicaSeptember 15, 2017
5min267
The Legislature’s chief economist has told lawmakers that next year’s relatively tiny budget surplus will be erased because of costs from Hurricane Irma. Amy Baker, director of the Office of Economic and Demographic Research, presented a working version of the state’s long-range financial outlook to the Joint Legislative Budget Commission on Friday. She explained that extra costs to […]