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Right-Wing Pushes Costly and Inefficient Prison Privatization Schemes

Altaf Rahamatulla on April 28, 2011 - 12:48pm

This session, right-wing officials have been peddling costly, inefficient, and socially damaging prison privatization schemes. Several states, including Louisiana, Florida, and Ohio, have considered proposals to hand over the operation and management of prisons to private entities.

The Federal Government Shutdown: How It May Impact The States

Ben Secord on April 7, 2011 - 11:58am

 

As the prospect of a federal government shutdown looms in Washington D.C., states are nervously preparing for the impact it could have on their already strapped budgets and their fragile economic recoveries.

 

States Look to Make Spending More Accountable

Altaf Rahamatulla on March 31, 2011 - 12:05pm

In early March, New Mexico progressives achieved a notable victory after the state legislature approved SB47, a bill to develop an annual tax expenditure budget, to accurately assess how much the state spends on tax breaks for various industries and companies. The bill's movement is complimented by heightened legislative momentum around accountability across the states. Such reforms, including increasing disclosure of state spending on subsidies, contracts, and corporate tax breaks, are especially necessary considering the bleak fiscal and economic circumstances states continue to confront.

New Report Highlights the Importance of Transparency and Accountability in State Budgets

Altaf Rahamatulla on December 16, 2010 - 1:27pm

The precarious economic and fiscal circumstances states confront merit a more detailed and scrupulous review of spending on economic development subsidies. Near double-digit unemployment, massive revenue shortfalls, and a slow recovery continue to batter state budgets and dim growth prospects.  Without needed accountability reforms, states are placing taxpayers, budget sustainability, and economic recovery at risk.  Within this context, Good Jobs First released three key resources to track and evaluate state spending on job subsidies.

After Benefiting From Voter Furor Over Economy, Conservatives Prioritize Divisive Social Agenda in States

Charles Monaco on December 2, 2010 - 12:47pm

The morning after Election Day, conservative candidates across the country woke up to find themselves the beneficiaries of an historic national wave of voter anger over the state of the economy and record unemployment.  Yet in the first few weeks after this clear voter statement of frustration over the economy, conservative state lawmakers across the fifty states are already making it clear that their legislative priorities next year will include pushing a divisive social agenda - an agenda that remained largely hidden during the campaign.