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The newest issue (May 7) of State Budgeting Matters is now posted on our Website: FY 2010 - FY 2011 State Budget: The Out-of-Balance House ...

Less than one week after the Ohio House of Representatives sent the FY 2010-11 budget to the Senate, a Strickland Administration press confe...

Increased levels of investment in certain programs through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Resolu...

1. In the Nation... For the first time in more than three decades, Social Security recipients will not get any increase in their benefits ne...

As the state budget officially moved from the House to the Senate this week, human service advocates were partially successful at shoring up...

Congress finished its work on the budget resolution this week. The President has indicated he will send up his detailed budget request next...

The American Lung Association came out with State of the Air this week, its annual air quality report card. It gave Cuyahoga County a grade...

The May 1, 2009 issue of State Budgeting Matter is now posted on our Website. This special edition issue takes a look at Medicaid and the Im...

Yesterday the state budget bill passed the House and the federal budget resolution was approved by both the U.S. House and Senate. It's ...

The House Budget Committee has announced that Senate and House negotiators have reached an agreement on a federal budget plan for fiscal yea...

1. In the Nation... The U.S. declared a public health emergency Sunday to deal with the emerging new swine flu, much like the government doe...

Congress named its conferees to the budget resolution yesterday and could finish work on the budget resolution next week. The Administratio...

We have concerns about a number of unmet needs in the Executive Budget in health and human service programs and the state’s overall fiscal h...