The phrase "budget shortage" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to a lack of funds in a budget as a result of inadequate allocation of resources. For example: "The budget shortage has led to cuts in several departments this fiscal year."
More than 40 states have a budget shortage.
Grappling with the budget shortage, the department saved its new grants for areas with the greatest need.
A task force set up by Gov. Kenny Guinn approved a plan to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to fix a growing budget shortage.
The rescue package detailed on Thursday at City Hall uses a hodgepodge of city and state funds to close a $21 million budget shortage.
To combat that budget shortage, city leaders proposed an across-the-board 3percentt pay reduction to generate the $600,000 savings.
Colorado is now trying find a way to make up a two-year budget shortage of about $700 million, in part because of new voter-mandated spending programs.
Outsiders say chronic budget shortages, past mismanagement and, most recently, politics have also added to the delays.
Mr Kollek blamed government obstruction and budget shortages, but some doubted that; he was, after all, the master at solving such problems.
Putting aside budget shortages, Mr. Berner said that the government's statisticians and economists were able to work in an independent, scientifically minded way.
Moody's had placed Virginia on a downgrade watch list last fall because of the weak economy and projections of budget shortages for years to come.
Rental rates are falling, property values are beginning to decline and some cities are already anticipating budget shortages from waning property taxes.
