budget surplus
noun
: more money than is needed to pay for planned expenses
The state currently has a $3 million budget surplus.
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Armed with a substantial budget surplus, Minnesota lawmakers in 2023 raised early childhood education workers’ pay with a half-billion-dollar investment and invested $300 million more into early learning, including new investments in Head Start and low-income scholarships.
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Rachel M. Cohen, Vox, 21 May 2024
The money would come from the current year’s budget surplus and carrying it forward into the next fiscal year.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 8 May 2024
Here are Wednesday's top stories so far: A closer look at Kentucky's budget: Kentucky is currently sitting on a record-high budget surplus and recently passed a $137 billion budget for the next fiscal year, but where is all that money going?
—Keisha Rowe, The Courier-Journal, 8 May 2024
Under the terms of the bailout, Greece is supposed to pass measures to create a primary budget surplus of 3.5 percent of economic output by 2018, which the IMF does not consider realistic.
—Stathis N. Kalyvas, Foreign Affairs, 3 May 2016
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Rachel M. Cohen, Vox, 21 May 2024
The money would come from the current year’s budget surplus and carrying it forward into the next fiscal year.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 8 May 2024
Here are Wednesday's top stories so far: A closer look at Kentucky's budget: Kentucky is currently sitting on a record-high budget surplus and recently passed a $137 billion budget for the next fiscal year, but where is all that money going?
—Keisha Rowe, The Courier-Journal, 8 May 2024
Under the terms of the bailout, Greece is supposed to pass measures to create a primary budget surplus of 3.5 percent of economic output by 2018, which the IMF does not consider realistic.
—Stathis N. Kalyvas, Foreign Affairs, 3 May 2016
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“Budget surplus.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/budget%20surplus. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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