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BALTIMORE, Aug. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Keeping Maryland on a steady diet of service cuts, without raising any revenues is not healthy for our future. A new report by the Maryland Budget & Tax Policy Institute outlines several revenue options that would solve the state's $1.1 billion shortfall for Fiscal Year 2013, which begins on July 1st 2012. To date, Maryland's primary response to the economic crisis has been to dramatically reduce state government spending. Since 2008, the state has cut $5 billion. These cuts have affected health services, education at all levels, roads and nearly every other public function.
Like other states, Maryland still suffers from the lingering effects of the worst national recession on record. School class sizes are increasing as school district...
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The West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy has compiled 10 charts providing interesting information about the current federal tax system in the United States.
Total government receipts are just over 30 percent of the annual gross domestic product in the United States - second lowest among the world's highly industrialized countries. Only Australia's is lower.
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San Bernardino and Alameda counties may be statistically similar in terms of crime rate, but officials in San Bernardino send twice as many to prison and the county uses more state corrections funds than its Bay Area counterpart, according to a new policy report.
David Ball, a criminal law professor at Santa Clara University and the author of the study, says the situation isn't fair.
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Lawmakers this year said they strove to keep non-budget policy changes out of the budget package and, while many that were originally considered were removed, they couldn't completely insulate the final compromise from policies whose ties to the budget are tenuous, at best.
For instance, one such provision has been assailed as payback aimed at a political enemy.
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Whether looking at the allocation of federal tax dollars, public opinion regarding the health care reform law, or the national 2012 election, one issu...
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HOUSE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM: SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE, DRUG POLICY AND HUMAN RESOURCES HOLDS A HEARING ON THE FISCAL YEA...
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THE CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES HOLDS A NEWS TELECONFERENCE ON THE ADMINISTRATION'S F.Y. 2011 BUDGET
FEBRUARY 1, 2010
SPEAKERS: ROBE...
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Economist, Author, Commentator, and Blogger to Be Senior Fellow
WASHINGTON, May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Jared Bernstein, the former top economic adviser to Vice President Biden, joined the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities on Monday, May 16, as a Senior Fellow, the Center announced.
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To: POLITICAL EDITORS
Contact: Shannon Spillane of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, +1-202-408-1080, spillane@cbpp.org