Gov. John Kitzhaber's budget is based on saving $800 million by capping cost of living increases in public employee retiree pensions, and achieving more savings by changing prison sentences to lower the number of nonviolent inmates. Democrats reacted cautiously to his proposals.

Democrats in the evenly divided Senate signaled Sunday that they will try to force another budget stalemate unless the General Assembly agrees to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.

Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin is expected to discuss details of her renewed call for a cut to the state's top personal income tax rate, which is currently 5.25 percent

Gov. Rick Scott's proposed cut of $82 million, or 2 percent, in public funding to hospitals wasn't so bad, said the president of the Florida Hospital Association.

Early budgets have become more routine in New York state since Gov. David Paterson seized on a law that allows a governor to impose his or her budget on the Legislature if it doesn't act by April 1.

An audit of the $13 billion North Carolina Medicaid budget revealed a rat's nest of problems from overspending, bloated administrative costs and violations of the law.

Not one, not two, but three extensions later, HHS basically tosses the "deadline" for state health insurance exchanges.

Gov. Rick Scott proposed a record, $74.2 billion budget Thursday that would expand health-care and services to the disabled, give teachers and state employees raises, offer more tax cuts to businesses, and restores cuts to universities.

Nixon’s budget relies on $46.6 million from the expansion of Medicaid – the health care program for the poor – via an optional provision under the federal Affordable Care Act, but GOP leaders have repeatedly said that they don’t think expansion is the best option for Missouri.

The United States is on track by 2020 to become the world's largest oil producer and a net exporter of natural gas, a reversal of fortunes with huge consequences for many state budgets.