The partnership aims to help address the current and future workforce needs for the fusion energy industry.

The survey included 170 businesses that WMC says are a representative sample of its membership.

With the bulk of the surplus still remaining, lawmakers and the governor are still left with some of the same choices they faced when the budget debate began this year.

At least a brief recession was expected starting this quarter, but the outlook brightened somewhat after U.S. hiring stayed strong.

According to the study, credit cards account for more than double any other single source of personal debt.