The country’s severe shortage of qualified public elementary and secondary school teachers, which a new Economic Policy Institute (EPI) report details, demonstrates states’ ... Read more
Protests by teachers and others helped drive substantial school funding increases over the last year in Arizona, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and West Virginia, four states ... Read more
States where funding remains depressed may fall behind their peers unless they raise sustainable additional revenue and invest it wisely in their schools. Read more
One way states can build more broadly shared prosperity is by adopting a tax on high-value housing, often called a mansion tax, to help fund schools, health care, roads, and other services and infrastructure critical to residents’ long-term future. Read more
States and localities can do more to help undo the harmful legacies of racism and the damage of continuing racial bias and discrimination, a major ... Read more
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. ... Read more
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. Read more
North Carolina voters will decide in November whether to tighten the cap on the state’s income tax rate, which would make it harder to fund ... Read more
State and local tax systems can be a powerful tool for boosting economic opportunity, creating broadly shared prosperity, and building equitable state economies. But in ... Read more
