President Trump’s 2021 budget would slice federal aid to state and local governments that provides health care, K-12 education, and more. Large federal ... Read more
While Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is best known for his inspirational leadership in bringing down legal barriers to civil rights for Black Americans and ... Read more
More modest proposals to modify the SALT cap offer a superior approach; such proposals can be designed to exempt the vast share of taxpayers from the cap and at far less cost. Read more
Deep state cuts in funding for higher education over the last decade have contributed to rapid, significant tuition increases and pushed more of the costs of college to students, making it harder for them to enroll and graduate. 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
As children across the country begin a new school year, their schools’ facilities and equipment aren’t as modern as they should be, due to sharp ... Read more
With a new fiscal year set to begin in most states on July 1, state policymakers have raised revenue for public investments in schools and ... Read more
Some states still provide much less K-12 funding per student than in the 2008 school year, when the Great Recession hit, according to new Census ... Read more
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
