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Volume XXIII No. 23 - August 3 2015
Volume XXV No. 20 - July 10 2017
Volume XXVI No. 30 - October 8 2018
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Blog Post:
Budgets In Brief - August 3 2015
Mary Peck
IL Cook County Approves Sales Tax Increase The governing board of Cook County, ILLINOIS narrowly approved a one-cent sales tax increase that will push Chicago’s rate over that of four Alabama cities and Seattle on Jan. 1, making it the highest rate of any major U.S. city, at 10.25 percent (CHICAGO...
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31 Jul 2015
Blog Post:
Budgets Late In Many States
Mary Peck
Ten states started the 2018 fiscal year on July 1 without a budget in place, according to the Tax Foundation. A partial government shutdown in one of those states, Maine, ended on the 4th of July when Gov. Paul LePage (R) signed a budget compromise eliminating a controversial 3 percent income tax surcharge...
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7 Jul 2017
Blog Post:
State’s Age Impacts Fiscal Health
Mary Peck
The older a state is, the more likely it is to have fiscal problems. That’s one of the findings of an analysis of state fiscal health by William Bergman, director of research for Truth in Accounting, a nonprofit that advocates for transparency in local, state and federal government finances. ...
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5 Oct 2018