Denver’s budget crisis has caused layoffs for city workers and has begun affecting services for residents. Now Mayor Mike Johnston and the City Council are negotiating...
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KFVS) – The Missouri House approved its version of the state budget, sending the $47.9 billion spending plan to the next step. But...
Rudi Keller | Missouri Independent The House Budget Committee squeezed $139 million in general revenue out of the Missouri state budget for road, port and other...
State economists confirmed Colorado’s brutal budgetary situation Monday, kicking off lawmakers’ mad dash to fill a $1.2 billion hole in the budget. The March economic forecasts...
PIERRE — South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden shot down a bill which would have expanded the state’s child care assistance program for certain child care employees....
Children work on crafts and writing at the Sitka Child Development Center on Tuesday, June 20, 2023 on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage. (Loren Holmes /...
Keeping Missouri state government operating through June 30 will cost $2.1 billion more than lawmakers budgeted last year thanks to lowballed spending estimates, sluggish lottery sales...