claim: says the 2011-13 state budget eliminates the structural deficit "for the first time in decades."
author: alberta darling
evidence_1: state officials began the 2011-13 budget process facing a more than $1.2 billion  ... this year's state budget process was painful, the result of more than a decade  of ... but it also eliminated the state's structural deficit for the first time since 1996,  ...
evidence_2: jul 17, 2011 ... it's the first time the fiscal bureau has determined that a budget ... their 2011-'13  budget eliminates the state's long-standing structural deficit. ... budget eliminated  the structural deficit for the "first time in decades" as mostly true ...
evidence_3: sep 3, 2011 ... of more than a decade of fiscal denial by governors and lawmakers of ... but it  also eliminated the state's structural deficit for the first time since 1996, provid- ing  hope ... state officials began the 2011-13 budget process facing.
evidence_4: sep 22, 2011 ... that budget closed a $3.6 billion shortfall from the previous fiscal year, and also,  for the first time in many years, closed the state's structural deficit. ... swift  approval to the $66 billion 2011-'13 state budget, which was signed .... budget  eliminates the structural deficit 'for the first time in decades,'" july 3, 2011.
evidence_5: alberta darling · says the 2011-13 state budget eliminates the structural deficit " for the first time in decades." — politifact wisconsin on sunday, july 3rd, 2011.