The 108th Nebraska Legislature is underway and one of the major early tasks for the Legislature is to consider potential rule changes in the body. Legislative procedures can seem like “inside baseball,” [...]
Flat income tax rates – such as the one passed in 2022 in Iowa – are proposed to lower taxes, particularly for the wealthy, an analyst from the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center [...]
The big fiscal development facing lawmakers as they kick off the legislative session today is what to do with the $1.9 billion projected surplus. To help understand this unprecedented amount, the OpenSky [...]
In Sunday’s Omaha World-Herald, OpenSky Executive Director Dr. Rebecca Firestone wrote that while the $1.9 billion lawmakers have for new legislation this session presents an opportunity to make powerful investments, there are major [...]
Dear Friend, In celebrating OpenSky’s 10th anniversary this year, we asked some of our friends and partners to share their thoughts about how OpenSky’s work can continue to shape our policy debates [...]
Earlier in 2022, Iowa lawmakers passed a bill that left the state with a flat 3.9% personal income tax rate. Some in Nebraska are talking of proposing similar legislation in the upcoming [...]
Dear Friend, As the year comes to a close, I, along with the rest of the OpenSky team, wanted to take a moment to offer our heartfelt thanks to two outgoing members [...]
Dear Friend, This year, our team at OpenSky reviewed our core values as an organization and we found ourselves called to the principles of analytics, trustworthiness, equity, empathy and boldness. You see [...]
Fiscal policy proposals and issues that face the Legislature regularly are the focus of OpenSky’s Quick Fact series. These documents take a close look at these issues in an effort to educate [...]
A fall tradition for the OpenSky team is to hit the road and visit communities outside of the Lincoln and Omaha metro areas. In recent weeks, our travels took us to Hastings, [...]