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Norway’s 2011 Budget Will Help Keep Low Rates, Stoltenberg Says (Bloomberg)
March 15 (Bloomberg) -- Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg pledged to curb the use of oil revenue in the 2011 budget to ensure interest rates in the world’s sixth-largest oil exporter stay low as the economy emerges from recession.

Norway’s Budget to Keep Rates Low, Stoltenberg Says (Update1) (Bloomberg)
March 14 (Bloomberg) -- Norway’s government will curb the use of oil revenue in the 2011 budget to ensure interest rates in the world’s sixth-largest oil exporter stay low as the economy emerges from recession, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said.

New report outlines effects of budget shortfalls on low-income families (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Mountain Association for Community Economic Development has issued a report that says "Kentucky’s economic challenges are rooted in insufficient support of the one-third of the state’s working families that are low-income." Check Lu-Ann's Kentucky News Review for more information.

Snow removal, low tax payments increase budget shortfall (Baltimore Sun)
Howard County's budget shortfall is growing instead of shrinking as the fiscal year enters its final quarter.

Virginia Assembly OKs 2-year, $70 billion budget (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
The Virginia General Assembly on Sunday overwhelmingly passed a new two-year budget that makes unprecedented cuts to state services and programs but includes no tax increase.