Spotlight on the States

The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) recently released data on state and local government spending and receipts in the third quarter of 2021...

Last week, the Department of Treasury issued guidelines for the allocations of $350 billion of direct state and local aid funds in the American Rescue...

The American Rescue Plan currently making its way through Congress contains over $500 billion of aid to state and local governments. A number of...

Last week, our "Spotlight on the States" blog post highlighted structural challenges for the states, one of them being an eroding sales tax base. The...

The State Budget Crisis Task Force -- a group of budget experts including the likes of former CBO and OMB director Alice Rivlin, former Federal...

Last year, our Spotlight on the States series highlighted many contentious battles to eliminate budget shortfalls in state capitals across the country...

Continuing their efforts to close budget gaps, states across the country have looked to public pension reform as part of a possible solution. Among...

Breaking from traditional posts in our Spotlight on the States series, this blog focuses not on one state's budget, but on an issue that directly...

With federal budget news in a bit of a holding pattern until next month, we return to our Spotlight on the States blog series with a discussion of New...

Pew's Center on the States has an interesting new report with a different angle on how breaking through the debt ceiling and defaulting would affect...

Taking a break from all the recent developments in the budget and fiscal policy world, we take a quick turn to our Spotlight on the States blog series...

The next state we turn to in our Spotlight on the States series is Connecticut – a small state that’s had some pretty big budget problems. Many newly...