Monthly Archives: February 2009
Groups lobby to save subsidies from state
Senate run not in plans, Moore says
Forward together or backing up alone
As state lawmakers begin hearings to put the state budget together in the face of what may be a $4 billion shortfall next year, the lines between two philosophies of government and public policy could not be clearer. [Continue Reading...]
Coming together to solve our problems
A new coalition points the way toward balanced, responsible state budget solutions
Last Friday, Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman explained to his readers around the country why this is not “your father’s recession.” This week, the North Carolina Budget and Tax Center is out with some new numbers on the state fiscal crisis that make clear that this is not your father’s (or your mother’s) state budget shortfall either. Even with the relief included in the federal stimulus bill, the picture is decidedly un-rosy.
