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Introduction North Carolina has more than 80,500 miles of state-owned highways, more than any other state besides Texas. Unlike Texas, which owns one-fourth of the 322,000 miles of roads in…
Introduction The state government owns more than 132 million square feet of space across 11,700 buildings worth $40.9 billion. The state budget includes approximately $350 million per year to pay…
Senate plan spends slightly less that House, while excluding additional teacher and state employee raises
All news accounts described the recently passed state budget as spending $30 billion. But they left out a significant amount of spending: more than $7 billion. The recent trend of…
Nearly three months into the fiscal year, a budget bill has finally arrived. While containing several flaws, the good seems to outweigh the bad. Some parts of the budget and…
The North Carolina Senate released its biennium budget proposal this week as scheduled, with the expectation of meeting with the state House to establish a conference budget before the current…
The North Carolina House released its biennium budget proposal this week as scheduled, and the North Carolina Senate is scheduled to release its version next before the two chambers meet…
After a history of vetoes, Gov. Roy Cooper will sign his first NC state budget The budget includes significant benefits in the form of substantial tax cuts, infrastructure projects, and…
The House budget plan, per previous agreement, would spend about the same total amount as the Senate plan. Differences exist, however, primarily with a less aggressive tax cut plan and…
Recent revenue reports project overcollections in the current fiscal year of $6 billion. This added windfall provides many options to budget writers. The Senate budget plan focuses on tax cuts…
Cooper’s 2021-23 biennium budget is more a political statement than a realistic proposal. It would leave state government fiscally fragile and at greater risk of layoffs and tax increases in…
Any state that has $5.4 billion in unspent money should have no need for another $5.2 billion, especially since taking the money could mean no tax cuts until 2024.