Federal/State Systems/Spending

Archived Publications

Feb 2005 Deep Cuts in Federal Grants in FY2006 Will Squeeze States and Localities
May 2004 The Hidden Public Costs of Low-Wage Jobs in California
Mar 2004 What Does Government Spend on Children? Evidence from Five Cities
Jan 2004 Policies and Procedures in Benefit Programs: An Overview of the Opportunities and Challenges Under Current Federal Laws and Regulations
Jan 2004 Aligning Policies and Procedures in Benefit Programs: An Overview of the Opportunities and Challenges Under Current Federal Laws and Regulations
Jan 2004 Supports For Low-Income Families: States Serve a Broad Range of Families through a Complex and Changing System
Jan 2004 The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2005 to 2014
Dec 2003 It's Crunch Time for State Budgets
Aug 2003 The Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update
Aug 2003 Underlying State Revenue Picture Remains Bleak
Jul 2003 Direct Spending Effects of H.R. 2350 Welfare Reform Extension Act of 2003
Jul 2003 How States Used TANF and MOE Funds in FY 2002: The Picture from Federal Reporting
Jul 2003 Redistribution Effect of Introducing Census 2000 Data Into the CDBG Formula
Jul 2003 State Fiscal Responses to Welfare Reform during Recessions: Lessons for the Future
Jul 2003 Welfare Reform: Information on Changing Labor Market and State Fiscal Conditions
Jun 2003 Federal Domestic Spending Up 8 Percent in 2002, Census Bureau Reports
Jun 2003 Fiscal Survey of States - Spring 2003
Jun 2003 The State Fiscal Crisis Continues
Jun 2003 State Tax Revenue- Slowing Again
May 2003 Rockefeller Fiscal Studies Information Systems
Apr 2003 Comparing the House and Senate Budget
Apr 2003 How Are States Responding to Fiscal Stress?
Apr 2003 The State Fiscal Crisis: Extent, Causes, And Responses
Apr 2003 State Income Tax Burdens on Low-Income Families in 2002
Mar 2003 Do Public Expenditures Improve Child Outcomes in the U.S.: A Comparison Across Fifty States
Jan 2003 State of the States 2003
Dec 2002 The Cost of Protecting Vulnerable Children III What Factors Affect States' Fiscal Decisions?
Dec 2002 State Revenue Report #50: Continued Weakness in State Tax Revenue
Nov 2002 The Cost of Protecting Vulnerable Children
Nov 2002 The Fiscal Survey of States
Nov 2002 State Poverty-Based Education Funding: A Survey of Current Programs and Options for Improvement
Nov 2002 The State Tax Cuts of the 1990s, the Current Revenue Crisis, and Implications for State Services
Oct 2002 Annual TANF Expenditures Remain $2 Billion above Block Grant
Oct 2002 Did States Overspend During the 1990s?
Oct 2002 States Cut Spending in FY 2002 and FY 2003 Additional Cuts Likely Unless New Revenues are Raised
Sep 2002 State Fiscal Conditions Continue to Deteriorate; Federal Assistance Badly Needed
Sep 2002 Will Congress Reduce Funding For Domestic Programs Outside Homeland Security?
Sep 2002 Workforce Investment Act: Interim Report on Status of Spending and States' Available Funds
May 2002 States Need More Federal TANF Funds
May 2002 States and Counties Taking Steps to Help Low-Income Working Families Make Ends Meet and Move Up the Economic Ladder
Apr 2002 Welfare Reform: States Provide TANF-Funded Work Support Services to Many Low-Income Families Who Do Not Receive Cash Assistance
Apr 2002 State Policy Choices Under Welfare Reform
Apr 2002 The Structure of the TANF Block Grant
Mar 2002 TANF Spending in Federal Fiscal Year 2001
Feb 2002 Relieving the Recession: Nineteen Ways States Can Assist Low-Income Families During the Downturn
Feb 2002 State Income Tax Burdens on Low-Income Families in 2001
Feb 2002 Welfare Policymaking in the States: The Devil in Devolution
Jan 2002 Refundable Tax Credit Available for Families with Child Care Expenses
Jan 2002 States Cutting Low-Income Programs in Response to Fiscal Crises
2002 State Tax Systems are Becoming Increasingly Inequitable
Nov 2001 TANF Expenditures Increased in The Last Fiscal Year
Mar 2001 State Income Tax Burdens on Low Income Families in 2000: Assessing the Burden and Opportunities for Relief
Feb 2001 Medicaid Spending Growth Remained Modest in 1998, But Likely Headed Upward
Dec 1999 Federal Funding Sources for Public Job Creation Initiatives
  Child Care Funding and Policy Issues
  Administration's TANF Proposals Would Limit - Not Increase - State Flexibility
  Allowing States to Pay for State Charitable Contribution Tax Credits Out of TANF Block Grants Would Not Be an Effective Use of Federal Welfare Funds
  Analysis of TANF Spending Through the Middle of Federal Fiscal Year 2001
  Are States Requiring TANF Recipients to Participate in Welfare-to-Work Activities?
  Contracting Welfare Reform: Uncertainties of Capacity-Building Within Disjointed Federalism
  Early Efforts by States to Monitor Outcomes of Welfare Reform
  Family Leave for Low-Income Working Women: Providing Paid Leave Through Temporary Disability Insurance--The New Jersey Case, Research-in-Brief
  Federal Aid to State Medicaid Programs Is Falling While The Economy Weakens
  Federal Income Taxation of Unemployment Insurance: Re-examining a Flawed Policy
  The Fiscal Effects of Welfare Reform: State Social Service Spending Before and After Welfare Reform
  Funding Issues in TANF Reauthorization
  Governmental Quality and Welfare Reform
  The House Ways and Means Proposal to Assist Low- and Moderate-Income Families
  Making Work Pay With Tax Reform
  Many States Are Considering Medicaid Cutbacks In The Midst of The Economic Downturn
  Medical Spending, Health Insurance, and Measurement of American Poverty
  The Proposed "Super Waiver" Undermines the Basic Integrity of the Unemployment Insurance Program
  Prospecting Among the Poor: Welfare Privatization
  Department of Labor (Rethinking Income Support for the Working Poor: Perspectives on Unemployment Insurance, Welfare, and Work)
  The Role of Medicaid in State Budgets
  Social Policy and the Macroeconomy: What Drives Welfare Caseloads?
  TANF State Fact Sheets
  The Superwaiver Would Cause Serious Damage to the Food Stamp Program and Risk Benefits to Low-Income Families
  TANF Supplemental Grants Should be Extended For Fiscal Year 2002
  Unspent TANF Funds at the End of Federal Fiscal Year 2000
  Using Unspent TANF Funds to Further Self-Sufficiency Among Welfare Recipients
  Welfare Reform and Recession: Can the States Handle Both?
  Welfare Reform: Challenges in Maintaining a Federal-State Fiscal Partnership
  Welfare Reform: Improving State Automated Systems Requires Coordinated Federal Effort (HEHS-00-48)
  Welfare Reform: Interim Report on Potential Ways to Strengthen Federal Oversight of State and Local Contracting
  Welfare Reform: More Coordinated Federal Effort Could Help States and Localities Move TANF Recipients With Impairments Toward Employment
  Welfare Reform in Wisconsin: The Local Role
  Welfare Then, Welfare Now: Expenditures in Some Midwestern States
  Workforce Investment Act: Better Guidance Needed to Address Concerns Over New Requirements