Monday is a big day for anyone with a stake in the Massachusetts state budget. On Beacon Hill, lawmakers in charge of writing the next budget hear how much revenue they’ll likely have to work with.

For more, we turned to Matt Murphy, a reporter with the State House News Service. Murphy said state revenue estimates have been on the optimistic side in recent years.

Click the audio player above to hear NEPR’s Henry Epp speak with Matt Murphy of the State House News Service.