Photo credit: iStock.com/pcess609 Sales taxes are responsible for funding a sizeable portion of the majority of states' budgets. States implement [...]

Photo credit: iStock.com/Darren415 On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (H.R. 5376) into law after the [...]

Photo credit: iStock.com/Darren415 On August 7, 2022, the U.S. Senate passed a landmark tax, climate, and healthcare bill, setting up [...]

Photo credit: iStock.com/rruntsch On April 19, Governor JB Pritzker signed the FY 2023 Illinois state budget into law, including $1.8 [...]

Photo credit: iStock.com/lucky-photographer On March 15, 2022, President Joe Biden signed H.R. 2471, the Omnibus Appropriations Package for Fiscal 2022, [...]

Digital collage by Ryan Stevens; image source by Myredcoug from Pixabay As discussed in our previous State of the States [...]

Digital collage by Ryan Stevens; image source by cytis from Pixabay  Government funding was extended through December 3 by a Senate amendment to H.R. [...]

As discussed in our previous budget update, many states are passing record high spending in their FY 22 state budgets.  [...]

Digital image by Ryan Stevens; image source by fancycrave1 & PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay  As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many workers became [...]

Digital collage by Ryan Stevens; image sources by Gerd Altmann & Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay  As DMGS noted previously, earmarks are making a [...]