Today, Senate Finance began hearing testimony from Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies, which administer most of the state’s social services programs, such as health
We’re #5! You have heard many times how Texas ranks 38th on state spending on public schools and 50th on state spending overall per resident.
As the Texas Legislature starts drafting a budget and writing laws that reflect the state’s values and respond to the state’s needs, it should ask:
Is your phone loaded up with apps that you once thought would be useful, but now just take up space on your screen? Well, the
Today is EITC Awareness Day. The economic impact on the Texas economy and working families is huge. Coinciding with the onset of tax season, EITC (Earned
Today, I testified at the first Senate Finance Committee hearing of the session. Below is a summary of what I shared with committee members: Last
Today, the Senate Finance committee kicked off public hearings on Senate Bill 1, the proposed state budget for 2014 and 2015. At $89 billion in
In our weekly Austin American-Statesman column, our executive director F. Scott McCown lays out why the proposed constitutional limit on spending would handcuff our future
Should the legislators you elect be trusted to decide how large the state budget should be, or should a rigid limit be written into the
Today, we learned a little about what the House and Senate budget proposals included, as well as what the Legislative Budget Board estimates is necessary to cover
