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STATE BUDGET AND TAX ANALYSIS

Learn more about our work and philosophy on budget and taxes issues. 

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State Budget:
star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes) To LBB and Governor's Office on TEA Appropriations Request
(9/00)

star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes) To LBB on Texas Workforce Commission Budget Request
 (9/00)


star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes) Testimony to LBB on DHS Budget Request
(9/00)  

star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes) Testimony to LBB on DPRS Budget Request
(9/00)

star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes)Report:  Incentives to Cost State $4.5 Billion
(3/00)  

star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes) Poverty & Public Assistance Trends in Texas
(1/00)  

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Texas and the Title XX Social Services Block Grant 

star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes) 76th Legislature Wrap Up:  Health and Human Services Budget

star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes)Health and Human Services Funding in HB 1 :  Detailed tables describing funding levels and differences by agency

star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes)House vs. Senate Appropriations Bills (4/99)

star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes)Testimony on Growth in State Spending (4/99 )

star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes)Analysis of CSHB 1: Human Services (4/99)

star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes)Securing the Future:  Using the 2000-2001 Budget to Invest in the People of Texas -- Report  (1/99)


POLICY PAGES
Budget Process Update (10/00) 

Federal Budget Update   (7/00)

Interim Committees Gear Up (4/00)

HHSC Block Grant Hearings  (4/00)  

star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes)Federal Budget Decisions Impact Texas  (9/99) 

star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes) Wrap-Up of 76th Legislative Session  (7/99) 

star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes)Critical Funding Decisions Made by Budget Conferees (6/99)

star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes)HB 1 Conference: What's at Stake for HHS (5/99)

star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes)CSHB 1:  Good & Bad News for Human Services Budgets  (4/99) 

star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes)House Appropriations Wraps Up HHS Budget Hearings (2/99) 


Tax Analysis:
POLICY PAGES
#104 Texans Have Low State Tax Burden 
(4/00)--

#100 Earned Income Credit  (2/00) 

star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes)#94 Tax Cuts Benefit Business More Than Consumers (7/99)

star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes)#93 Analysis of Senate Bill 4 (Education Bill) (7/99)

star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes)Legislators Consider Low-Wage Worker Bills -- Policy Page (3/99)

OTHER DOCUMENT
star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes)Tax Bite in Texas Not So Bad
-Press Release-(4/00) 

star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes)Op-Ed on R&D Tax Credit (SB 5)--(5/99)

star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes)Texas Taxes:  Executive Summary (4/99)

star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes)Texas Tax System Inadequate, Unfair (4/99) -- Press Release 

star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes)How to Read the Comptroller's Tax Incidence Report

star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes)The Other Side of the Story:   Comptrollers's Revenue Estimate Exposes Inadequacy of Texas' Tax System -- Press Release  (1/99)

star-bullet.GIF (889 bytes)Betting Against the Future:  The Inadequacy of the Texas Tax System -- Testimony (10/98)
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