Instead of using all that windfall for wages, the city could have used it for budget shortages elsewhere.

Was inactivated in March 1946 due to personnel and budget shortages.

Because of budget shortages, the office does not have enough people to open the mail - 1,500 letters a day.

More than 40 states have a budget shortage.

With a budget shortage, Rutherford lays off 300 employees.

Grappling with the budget shortage, the department saved its new grants for areas with the greatest need.

He has taken the most dramatic steps since the Depression to cure the city's chronic budget shortages.

Virginia's budget shortage is serious, though not as deep as those facing several other states, including New York.

Two examples: my group has always argued for more attention being paid to the public debt and somewhat less attention to the annual budget shortage.

However, the plan came to a deadlock for budget shortage by the second year.