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Determining creditworthiness and Texas' case for a top rating
To the ratings agencies, the AAA-rated states share one important trait: fiscal capacity, a superior ability to raise revenue within their borders to cover fiscal obligations.
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Texas Taxes: Who Bears the Burden?
Texas? reliance on sales and property taxes makes its revenue-raising methods more regressive than those in most other states. Texas lawmakers, facing increasing demands for services, confront a desire to maintain the state?s attractiveness to business even as inequities continue in how the taxpaying burden is shared.
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Noteworthy: New Texans, Mexican population, higher education
Encouraging signs are present in manufacturing and services, with a marked pickup in temp employment and initial signs that direct hiring is on the upswing.
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On the record: Texas in better fiscal shape than most other states: a conversation with Jason Saving
The hardships of recession aren't confined to the private sector. Dallas Fed regional economist Jason Saving takes a look at how state budgets are faring in the long, deep slump--starting with Texas.
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Improving public school financing in Texas
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Spotlight: Gas tax trends drive highway funding shift
Toll roads have become a key part of officials? strategy to keep pace with growing local economies and populations. Many economists regard tolls as an efficient revenue source for road construction because such levies tax users of resources rather than society as a whole.
Greater Hispanic Outreach Can Improve Take-Up of Earned Income Tax Credit
Despite the Earned Income Tax Credit’s many benefits, a large percentage of qualified workers do not claim it.
EITC increases labor force participation among married Black mothers
Research has shown that the Earned Income Tax Credit, the largest of the U.S. antipoverty programs, boosts labor force participation among single mothers. It does not, in the aggregate, have the same effect on married mothers.
Employment Numbers Suggest Young People Face Barriers in Recovery from Pandemic
Unemployment rates spiked for young adults in the initial months of the COVID recession. Since that time, younger members of this cohort (ages 16-19) have substantially recovered, while older members (ages 20-24) continue to see unemployment rates well above pre-COVID levels.