Read more... Oct 24, 2009
Five southern organizations, including the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy, the North Carolina Justice Center, Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, Center for Public Policy Priorities, and the Tennessee Health Care Campaign are receiving grants totaling more than $1 million to support state-level health reform efforts and to implement within the states any national health reform measures that may be enacted. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, based in Washington, DC,... (PNN Online)
Critics: Failed Indiana-IBM Deal Can Warn Others Oct 17, 2009
Both Indiana and Texas where thousands of children lost health insurance because of problems from an outsourcing experiment that ended in 2007 learned a costly lesson, said Celia Hagert, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Public Policy Priorities in Texas. 1. (ABC News -- Wire)
SHOWDOWN: TEXAS MAY REJECT NATIONALIZED HEALTHCARE... Jul 25, 2009
""I don t think it s surprising that the governor is taking a stand against it," said Anne Dunkelberg, associate director of the Center for Public Policy Priorities, an Austin-based research organization that supports the House version of Obama s plan. "Unfortunately, the national dialogue on health reform has been extraordinarily partisan and polarized. "The White House Media Affairs Office, asked to comment on Perry s statements, did not have an immediate response. In his remarks to the nation... (The Drudge Report)
Sales Tax Revenues Fall Sharply Jul 13, 2009
Eva DeLuna Castro of the nonpartisan Center for Public Policy Priorities says weak consumer spending is the cause of the shortfall. Sales tax payments to local cities and counties also declined 8. (Click2Houston, TX)
New threshold exempts more businesses from margin tax Jun 6, 2009
The $172 million reduction in the coming two years is too great a cut, said Dick Lavine, senior fiscal analyst for the Center for Public Policy Priorities. We re against any reduction in revenue until we ve met all basic needs, he said. (Austin Business Journal, TX)
Pawnshops feeling pinched May 5, 2009
The reformers are looking to require lightly regulated financial service providers, including payday lenders, to be licensed by a state regulator and report on their activities to the state, said Don Baylor, a senior analyst at the Center for Public Policy Priorities in Austin, which is backing the initiatives. Baylor said advocates of that proposal aren t asking for much by asking for the uniform licensing. (Dallas Business Journal, TX)
Critics Assail Perry's Rejection Of Stimulus Mar 14, 2009
"The tax implications for 2010 are much, much worse if you do not take the stimulus money," said Don Baylor, a senior policy analyst for the Center for Public Policy Priorities, which advocates for low-income Texans. "The fund is basically going to be out of money by the OU game." In other words, by October. (Click2Houston, TX)
Perry Rejects Stimulus Money For Unemployment Mar 13, 2009
"Without this federal money, Texas businesses face increased unemployment insurance taxes in bad times, and without the modest reforms in state law required to get the federal money, about 45,000 Texas workers will go without unemployment insurance," said Don Baylor, a policy analyst for the Center for Public Policy Priorities. Sen. (Click2Houston, TX)
Childrens Health Insurance Program: Compassionate and Cost-Effective Feb 13, 2009
The Center for Public Policy Priorities reports that, unfortunately, more than half of our uninsured children in Texas who could be enrolled in Medicaid or SCHIP today are not. Because SCHIP funding is provided to the state in the form of a block grant, if Texas does not utilize these dollars, we will lose them. (Anahuac Progress)
