Image Credit: American Legislative Exchange Council The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Tennessee ranks 12th in the new economic outlook rankings from the American Legislative Exchange Council. The annual rankings from ALEC – an organization favoring limited government, free markets and federalism – rank states on 15 state policy categories including gross domestic product, […]
Image Credit: Ron Cogswell / CC The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Memphis is looking for more funding for the renovations at the FedExForum and are pushing a pair of bills in the Tennessee Legislature to get that funding. The Legislature contributed $350 million in last year’s budget for renovations at the FedExForum and […]
Image Credit: Canva The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Tennessee’s January tax collections were $98 million less than budgeted but up $15.8 million from 2023. That puts the state $378 million behind its budgeted total for the first half of the fiscal year and $104 million short of collections from the first six months […]
Image Credit: Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration / Facebook The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Tennessee has now collected $279.9 million less than budgeted through the first five months of the fiscal year. December’s $1.9 billion in collections were $82.5 million less than budgeted In numbers released Friday afternoon. The December collections were […]
Image Credit: tn.gov/education The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – The state of Tennessee spent 43% of the state sales tax on education last fiscal year and 56 cents of every dollar of state and local sales tax went to education in that same span. Sales tax accounts for most of both state and local […]
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