Utah 2011: Crisis – Don’t Go Home Without It?

Abstract The 2011 Utah Legislature faced a still difficult economy, but one not as severe as that of most states. Its politics remained strongly conservative and Republican, and continued to suffer education, giving public schools far and away the nation’s lowest appropriation per child. But in a shift of very recent years, the legislature has embraced bonding, moving almost to the constitutional limit for general obligation bonds, to support highway construction.