As President Trump sends mixed signals about his support for a new economic relief bill, states and localities urgently need additional fiscal aid so they ... Read more
The Senate Republicans’ new economic relief plan contains no new fiscal aid for states and localities, whose revenues have collapsed due to COVID-19 and the ... Read more
The Senate Republicans’ reported economic relief plan contains no new fiscal aid for states and localities, whose revenues have collapsed due to COVID-19 ... Read more
As Congress begins considering a new relief package, likely the last before the election, emerging data show that a large and growing number of households ... Read more
The next coronavirus relief package should both extend the relief measures that are working but are slated to end well before the crisis abates and address the shortcomings and missing elements in the relief efforts to date. Read more
We now project that the state budget shortfalls expected from COVID-19’s economic fallout will total a cumulative $555 billion over state fiscal years 2020-2022. Read more
As federal policymakers consider another package to address the deep economic downturn, one of the most effective steps would be to provide substantial federal grants ... Read more
Some wrongly argue that federal policymakers should “wait and see” before giving states more fiscal aid to help address their huge, recession-driven revenue shortfalls, in ... Read more
