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Video: Nicholas Johnson, Director of the Center's State Fiscal Project, speaks about state budget on CNN's Lou Dobbs
October 3, 2008
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House Stimulus Plan Effectively Targets Fiscal Relief to States
September 26, 2008
The House Leadership’s new stimulus proposal includes more than $14 billion in fiscal relief for states. This is designed to help states avert budget cuts and tax increases that they otherwise will have to institute to balance their budgets but that will make the economic downturn worse by withdrawing demand from the … -
Key Components of House and Senate Economic Recovery Packages Would Boost the Economy and Provide Needed Relief to Struggling Families
September 26, 2008
Congress is properly focused on designing an appropriate measure to address very serious problems in the financial markets, which many experts persuasively argue is essential to help avert a meltdown in the financial markets and a potentially severe recession. The problems in the financial sector, however, are not the only ones the … -
Property Tax Limitation in the Senate Housing Bill is Unnecessary, Impractical, and Likely to Cause Harm
June 23, 2008
Legislation that the Senate is considering in response to the ongoing foreclosure crisis (H.R. 3221) includes a provision that would allow non-itemizers to deduct property taxes up to an amount of $500 for an individual and $1,000 for a couple.[1] It would deny the deduction, however, to residents of any locality that raises its … -
Statement by Iris Lav, Deputy Director, on Provision in Bipartisan Senate Housing Package Affecting Local Property Taxes
April 3, 2008
While the Senate housing package would establish a new property tax deduction for non-itemizers, a little-noticed provision of the bill would deny the new deduction to any resident of a locality that raises its property tax rate between April 2 and next January 1. By preventing localities from … -
Administration’s Medicaid Regulations Will Weaken Coverage, Harm States, and Strain Health Care System
Revised March 4, 2008
Over the last year, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a series of Medicaid regulations that could significantly affect health care at the state and local level. [1] These regulations, most of which alter longstanding Medicaid policies, do not require congressional approval. In fact, in some cases Congress … -
Economic Data Can be Used to Target State Fiscal Relief Effectively
March 3, 2008
States are experiencing major budget problems; more than half faced or are projecting deficits for the 2009 fiscal year. To meet their balanced budget requirements, many states have had to raise taxes and/or cut expenditures for services such as health care and education — actions that deepen the nation’s economic problems and offset some of … -
New Federal Law Could Worsen State Budget Problems
Revised February 28, 2008
The federal “economic stimulus” package enacted on February 13 not only cuts federal taxes, but also threatens to reduce many states’ corporate and personal income tax revenue this year and next year. The potential revenue loss comes at a particularly problematic time for states, because about half the states … -
Federal Grants to States and Localities Cut Deeply in Fiscal Year 2009 Federal Budget
February 4, 2008
Grants to state and local governments have long been an important way in which the federal government supports and administers programs efficiently. The new budget, however, continues to significantly erode those grants. This leaves states and localities the option of either curtailing services or increasing their own taxes to …
