475 million—amount in dollars of the original estimate of the cost in the current tax year of the tax reductions passed in 2013 (“State tax cut costs ballooning,” WRAL-TV, July 25, 2014)
4—number of days since the Fiscal Research Division of ...
A useful summary of the session
The best one line summary of much of this legislative session came from the N.C. Medical Society Thursday in a statement about the Senate Medicaid plan that turns over the health care program for the ...
While folks inside the beltline in Raleigh were parsing every rumor about the budget dance between House and Senate leaders, a new national report provided a stark reminder of just how out of touch the negotiators in the corner rooms ...
The General Assembly may finally be winding down this longest of short sessions, but election season is in full swing.
That includes state judicial elections, which in November 2014 will feature contested races for four seats on the Supreme Court, three ...
Another week at the General Assembly, another round of posturing on the budget , and another set of damaging and unnecessary budget cuts proposed because lawmakers are determined to give corporations and the wealthy yet another tax break.
That’s the summary ...
If yesterday’s competing Obamacare decisions don’t spur you to action, nothing will
It was just a few weeks ago that the U.S. Supreme Court’s disastrous Hobby Lobby birth control decision provided a wakeup call to caring and thinking people as ...
Taxpayers are helping pay for the head of the N.C. Forest Service to get a degree in forestry, a credential already held by his predecessors and many of his subordinates.
J. Scott Bissette, an assistant agriculture commissioner in charge of the ...
Date of voucher payout to families moved ahead of critical court hearing that will decide if program is legal
Rep. Paul “Skip” Stam has long supported school vouchers and successfully co-sponsored legislation that would put 10 million taxpayer dollars into the ...
Plans to finance both public education and transit at the local level would be stopped in their tracks under the version of legislation (House Bill 1224) that emerged from the state Senate Finance Committee this past week. The bill not ...
(The items in this edition of Monday numbers are from the report “What’s the Harm? Plenty. Unemployment Insurance Changes Threaten the State’s Economy and Hurt the Unemployed” by the N.C. Budget & Tax Center, published in July of 2014)
14—maximum number ...
