Thank you to everyone who participated in, attended or watched our Policy and Equity Webinar Series! We hope you found the webinars to be as enlightening and informative as we did.
If you attended or watched any of the webinars, we’d ask that you take this survey. Your feedback will help us ensure future webinars are as informative as possible.
Video of all four webinars has been posted online and can be accessed at the following links:
- Webinar 1, which focused on Nebraska’s current racial and ethnic equity situation;
- Webinar 2, which focused on historical policies that have contributed to inequity;
- Webinar 3, which focused on the importance of addressing inequity from a variety of perspectives; and
- Webinar 4, which focused on policy solutions lawmakers can enact to improve racial and ethnic equity in Nebraska.
A complete recap of webinar four, including a compilation of the policy recommendations made by panelists, will be published soon.
Forecasting blog updated to include revised shortfall number
We have updated our blog post from Friday regarding the recent revenue forecasting board meeting to include revised figures for the projected budget shortfall for the next biennium.
The revised forecast made by the Nebraska Economic Forecasting Advisory Board on Thursday did reduce the projected budget gap lawmakers will have to fill in the upcoming biennium from about $787 million to about $291 million. We initially reported the revised shortfall was projected to be $362 million. We also revised the blog to note the state would have had about a $133 million projected surplus as opposed to a projected shortfall had the income tax credit in LB 1107 not passed.