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House Bill to Implement Biden COVID-Relief Plan Includes Much-Needed K-12 Funding

February 9, 2021 | Nicholas Johnson and Victoria Jackson

American schools sorely need additional funding to ensure that they can reopen safely and meet students’ educational needs, and the House Education and Labor Committee will consider legislation...

State Budget and Tax

Blog

Arizona Ballot Measure Would Help More Kids Thrive

October 15, 2020 | Nicholas Johnson

Arizona voters on November 3 could take a giant step toward educational equity that would help every schoolchild in the state, with outsized benefits to kids of color and kids whose families have low...

State Budget and Tax

Blog

As School Year Starts, Schools Face New and Lingering Challenges

August 24, 2020 | Nicholas Johnson

As a new school year dawns, America’s schools face attacks from three directions: upended learning methods, a state revenue crisis, and racial disparities in education that threaten to weaken the...

Federal Budget

Blog

Additional, Well Targeted Federal Fiscal Aid Key to Advancing Racial Equity

July 1, 2020 | Nicholas Johnson

Unless federal policymakers provide enough aid to states, localities, territories, and tribal governments to offset all or nearly all of their massive revenue losses due to the pandemic, the...

State Budget and Tax

Blog

The Great Recession Badly Hurt Kids’ Schooling; Today’s Recession Could Do Much Worse

May 27, 2020 | Nicholas Johnson

Whenever our kids return to school, a severely diminished learning experience awaits them unless the federal government learns an important lesson from the past and significantly boosts state aid —...

State Budget and Tax

Blog

Bipartisan Stimulus Agreement Contains Significant Funds for States

March 25, 2020 | Nicholas Johnson

The emerging bipartisan agreement on the Senate’s economic emergency legislation contains very significant new resources to help states address their massive, immediate budget problems due to...

State Budget and Tax

Report

Advancing Racial Equity With State Tax Policy

November 15, 2018 | Michael Leachman, Michael Mitchell, Nicholas Johnson and Erica Williams

States and localities could do more to help undo the harmful legacies of past racism and the damage caused by continuing racial bias and discrimination.

State Budget and Tax

Report

Executive Summary: Advancing Racial Equity With State Tax Policy

November 15, 2018 | Michael Leachman, Michael Mitchell, Nicholas Johnson and Erica Williams

States and localities could do more to help undo the harmful legacies of past racism and the damage caused by continuing racial bias and discrimination. If state budget and tax policies were better...

State Budget and Tax

Commentary

Commentary: States Are Beginning to Turn the Tide on Taxes

April 11, 2018 | Nicholas Johnson

It took over 25 years, but lawmakers in Oklahoma have finally come around. Last month, lawmakers — some of them recently elected — took a different course: they passed the state’s first tax...

State Budget and Tax

Blog

Hidden New Tax Breaks for Wealthy Households, Corporations Risk State Revenues

March 22, 2018 | Nicholas Johnson

As states develop legislation to adapt their tax laws to the new federal tax law, corporate lobbyists and anti-tax advocates are trying to capitalize on the legislative process to secure state tax...

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