2017 budget

Washington’s New Definition Of Budget Success

The country is now living under a stopgap spending measure called a continuing resolution. Roughly speaking, it continues the 2016 level and pattern of appropriated...

April 3, 2017Rudolph G. Penner

State and Local Issues: TaxVox

A new tool to get under the hood of state and local budget choices

It’s budget season in most of the nation’s 50 states. This means governors are polishing State of the State speeches and finalizing plans for how...

January 27, 2017Tracy Gordon

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

The White House Quietly Rolls Out Its Last Tax and Budget Plan

If the White House wanted to attract attention to its final budget , it could not have picked a worse day to make it public. With official Washington obsessed with today’s New Hampshire primary, the 2017 budget barely caused a ripple. In case there was any question about its fate on Capitol Hill,

February 8, 2016Howard Gleckman