This Budget Monitor examines the House Ways and Means Committee's state budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2017. The HWM proposal is similar overall to the ...

The Governor's budget proposal for FY 2017 is best described as an austerity budget. It contains small cuts and spending reductions across government and includes ...

This preview provides an overview of both the specific challenges facing the Commonwealth this year and troubling longer-term trends that state budget writers face in ...

With the House and Senate having overridden a number of the Governor's vetoes the Fiscal Year 2016 (FY 2016) budget is now largely complete. This ...

The Legislature's FY 2016 budget, approved by the House and Senate, makes few major changes in overall support for the programs to educate our children, ...

Implementation of the Affordable Care Act affects the state's fiscal condition in a number of ways. Most significantly, the law provides substantial new federal revenue ...

This Monitor describes major differences between the House and Senate final budgets that will need to be reconciled by the conference committee now meeting. The ...

The Senate Ways and Means proposal for FY 2016 modestly increases education programs above levels in the Governor's and House budgets and it follows the ...

In a quiet three days of debate, the House made few changes to the budget drafted by the House Ways and Means Committee. Many of ...