OpenSkyLIGHTS: Focus on Nebraska fiscal policy (8/25/23)
30 Residents of Chappell will have to travel 30 miles or more to reach a health care clinic beginning this fall. Regional West Health Systems plans to close medical clinics in Sidney [...]
LB 753: The groups accepting donations and granting taxpayer-funded scholarships
After repeated attempts to pass school privatization measures had failed, Nebraska lawmakers in 2023 approved LB 753, which creates dollar-for-dollar tax credits totaling up to $100 million for donations to organizations granting [...]
LB 753: The state tax credits awarded to fund private school scholarships
After repeated attempts to pass school privatization measures had failed, Nebraska lawmakers in 2023 approved LB 753, which creates dollar-for-dollar tax credits totaling up to $100 million for donations to organizations granting [...]
OpenSkyLIGHTS: Focus on Nebraska fiscal policy (8/11/23)
2.3% Very few wealthy Nebraskans packed up and moved across the border over the past decade as compared to other states. Only Texas, California, Michigan, Minnesota, Alabama and Louisiana had smaller out-migration [...]
LB 753: The taxpayer-funded scholarships and who is eligible
After repeated attempts to pass school privatization measures had failed, Nebraska lawmakers in 2023 approved LB 753, which creates dollar-for-dollar tax credits eventually totaling up to $100 million for donations by individuals [...]
LB 753: The cost of private school scholarship tax credits
After repeated attempts to pass school privatization measures had failed, Nebraska lawmakers in 2023 approved LB 753, which creates dollar-for-dollar tax credits totaling up to $100 million for donations by individuals and [...]
OpenSkyLIGHTS: Focus on Nebraska fiscal policy (7/28/23)
29,800 As Congress considers appropriations bills for FY 2024, current proposals would require states to turn away hundreds of thousands of postpartum adults and young children receiving assistance through the Special Supplemental [...]
Omaha World-Herald on July 14: After months of low revenues, Nebraska closes out fiscal year on track with forecast
Nebraska ended its latest fiscal year just above projections, according to a report from the Nebraska Department of Revenue. In an Omaha World-Herald story, OpenSky Executive Director Dr. Rebecca Firestone noted that [...]
OpenSkyLIGHTS: Focus on Nebraska fiscal policy (7/14/23)
$6.368 billion Net General Fund tax receipts in Nebraska for FY 2022-23 totaled $6.368 billion, or 0.05% above the April forecast. But with recent tax cuts not reflected in those numbers and [...]
OpenSkyLIGHTS: Focus on Nebraska fiscal policy (7/7/23)
1.6 million As more states begin the year-long process to review Medicaid eligibility after the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, the Kaiser Family Foundation reports that nationally, 1.6 million people have [...]