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September 2010 Update
– Register Early: September 30 Conference
– Rethinking Taxes
– Public Investment is Key to Economic Development
– A (Slightly) Brighter Future for Revenue
– Farewell and Hello, Summer Speaking Tour
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June 2010 Update
– There Will Be A Lot At Stake In Vermont’s Next Budget
– Read the Census Data Warning Labels
– Early Word: Health Care Reform Will Insure More Vermonters
– Who Doesn’t Raise Taxes in an Election Year?
– Fun With Data
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April 2010 Update
– Confused About the State Budget?
– Former Officials Decry Cuts in Human Services
– Tax Me More!
– Don’t Make Education Funding More Complicated and Less Fair
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February 2010 Update
– Income Still Migrates Toward Vermont
– Back of the Envelope
– The Real Education Crisis
– All The Budget Numbers Fit to Print
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December 2009 Update
– Signs of the Times: Longer Unemployment, More Food Stamps
– Vermont Taxes Are Not So Progressive After All
– Bait and Switch at the Education Fund
– It’s Time for More Revenue
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October 2009 Update
– State of Working Vermont 2009
– The Word on Jobs: Huh?
– Facts To Action: 2009 Conference
– A More Thoughtful Policy Approach
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August 2009 Update
- A Broader Picture on Jobs
- More Budget Information, Please
- Vermont Stimulus Website Flunks Its First Review
- Modernize the Sales Tax: Look to Services
- Strange Bedfellows Launch New Project
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June 2009 Update
– FL vs VT: A Tax Case Study
– Budget Wrap-Up
– Unemployment Benefits for the 21st Century
– If Costs Must Shift, Less is Better
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April 2009 Update
– It’s Tax (Break) Time
– Close the Capital Gains Loophole
– Economic Development: Same Old Same Old
– Watchdogging the Stimulus Dollars
– 21st-Century Help for the Jobless
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February 2009 Update
– Medicaid Math
– The Stimulus Should Stimulate Long-Range Thinking
– Vermont’s 2008 Job Losses: Twice as Bad as Estimated
– School Funding Ain’t Broke—So Why the Call to Fix It?
– Some States are Increasing Joblessness
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December 2008 Update
– The State of Working Vermont 2008
– Vermont and Obama Health Care Reform
– To Face This Recession, Learn from History
– Federal Money Will Help Close the Budget Gap
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October 2008 Update
– New Residents Come With Higher Incomes
– Even Lower Revenues?
– Medicaid Woes Highlight The Budget’s Pre-Existing Condition
– Johnston Headlines a Timely Conference
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August 2008 Update
– The Government’s Energy Bills Are Rising, Too
– Gas Tax: It’s Not About the Money
– 2009 Budget Gap Points to Long-Term Problems
– Vermonters Still Digging Out from the Last Recession
– Conference 2008
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June 2008 Update
– On Health Care Reform, Don’t Study. Act
– The 2009 Budget: Priorities and Problems
– No New Taxes, but…
– What Are We Paying to Create Jobs?
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May 2008 Update
– A Slow Economy Needs New Demand Now
– Costs Are Up — Compared to What?
– ‘Service Impact Statements’ Would Reveal the Stakes
– Rich and Poor: Pulling Apart
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March 2008 Update
– Yes, There’s a Projected Deficit. Now What?
– Act 60 Lived Up to Hopes, Not Fears
– A Better-Informed Public in Four Easy Steps
– Bush’s Budget Would Cut Deep in Vermont
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December 2007 Update
– Public Budgeting Project
– Time for a More Timely Budget
– Education Spending Growth Already Slowing
– Choices for Vermont
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October 2007 Update
– Choices for Vermont Conference October 23
– Vermont Taxes Progressively, New Study Finds
– More CFED Troubles
– Jack Hoffman: New PAI Hire
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August 2007 Update
– Food Stamp Anniversary
– Economic Development Shake Up
– Household Affordability Study
– Vermont’s Public Structures Spotlight
– Child Poverty in Vermont?
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April 2007 Update
– Welcome
– Governor Misses the Mark on Affordability
– Economic Development: What’s Ahead?
– President Bush’s 2008 Budget Hits Vermont Hard
– Op-Ed: School-financing law is working
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