Nevada lawmakers can start finalizing their budgets in earnest after members of the Economic Forum met this week and cemented their projections about state revenue in the coming two years.

While legislative leaders are glad to have about $43 million more to work with than they first expected, that money doesn’t go far when the two-year state budget is $8.8 billion, and many bills working through the process have price tags that far exceed the bump the revenue projections give.

In this week’s podcast, reporters Megan Messerly and Michelle Rindels discuss their takeaways from the daylong Economic Forum — including when forecasters think the next recession is going to be — and recap their conversations with lawmakers about what it all means.

They also touch on some of the biggest unresolved issues in the last month of the legislative session — including a K-12 schools funding formula that has yet to be released and concerns that there’s not enough money in the budget for school districts to afford Gov. Steve Sisolak’s promised teacher raises.

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