Nebraska’s $1.9 billion state revenue surplus would “quickly” disappear under proposals by new Gov. Jim Pillen to increase state aid to K-12 education and cut taxes, a Lincoln think tank said Friday. [...]
It is still early in this year’s session of the Nebraska Legislature, but one of the topics that is bound to get a lot of attention will be school funding. Gov. Jim [...]
Just a day after unveiling his billion-dollar proposal for education reform and property tax relief, Gov. Jim Pillen laid out the rest of his tax-cutting plan. It includes moving from a tiered [...]
Governor Jim Pillen called a tax relief plan announced Wednesday “historic.” “The largest tax cuts in the history of Nebraska,” Pillen said while surrounded by the state senators introducing multiple bills aimed [...]
Gov. Jim Pillen is getting some immediate push back for what he calls “historic” tax relief. Pillen’s plan, a controversial flat tax, is being criticized as a tax cut that would largely [...]
In one of his first policy moves in office, Gov. Jim Pillen put his support behind three education funding bills that would, among other things, establish a $1 billion education fund. Pillen [...]
Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen introduced a multi-part education initiative today designed to boost the state’s investment in schools. It involves increasing state aid, reducing property taxes, and capping spending by school districts. [...]
Nebraska’s newly minted Gov. Jim Pillen proposed Tuesday to vastly increase K-12 public education funding using money from the state’s huge cash reserve. It’s a plan that even those typically critical of [...]
Gov. Jim Pillen and several state senators announced sweeping legislation on Tuesday that would change how the state funds public education in Nebraska. The legislative package, announced at a news conference in [...]
With the 2023 legislative session now under way in Lincoln, state senators, Gov. Jim Pillen and others will be devoting considerable time on what to do with Nebraska’s flush state coffers. It’s [...]