(AP) — The $895 million shortfall projected for the upcoming budget year shouldn’t come as a total surprise to lawmakers or Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration.
At least 40 percent of the gap is tied to the use of one-time money that propped up parts of the current budget and that is expected to fall away in the new fiscal year that begins July 1, most of it used in the state’s Medicaid program.
Another slice of next year’s shortfall is caused by tuition increases approved by lawmakers and sought by Jindal.
 
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