Here is how the composition of state and local budgets is expected to change by 2025:
2005
1. Education: 32.9 percent
2. Healthcare and social services: 27.6 percent
3. Transportation/public safety/environment and housing: 22.6 percent
4. Administration: 10.2 percent
5. Interest on general debt: 3.8 percent
6. Pension contributions: 2.9 percent
7. Estimated catch-up pension contribution: 0 percent
2015
8. Education: 31.3 percent
9. Healthcare and social services: 30.7 percent
10. Transportation/public safety/environment and housing: 21 percent
11. Administration: 9.2 percent
12. Pension contributions: 4.4 percent
13. Interest on general debt: 3.5 percent
14. Estimated catch-up pension contribution: 0 percent
2025 (estimated)
15. Healthcare and social services: 38.3 percent
16. Education: 27.3 percent
17. Transportation/public safety/environment and housing: 18.2 percent
18. Administration: 8 percent
19. Estimated catch-up pension contribution: 5.1 percent
20. Interest on general debt: 3.1 percent
21. Pension contributions: 0 percent
*Percentages represent the share of combined state and local budgets.
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