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With housing, insurance and other everyday expenses eating into household budgets, there’s no shortage of pressure on lawmakers to cut taxes. Property taxes are an easy target and it’s no wonder that thi...
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When we talk about school funding, most of us are thinking about investing in the people within public schools. But I was recently reminded during a Public Money Pod episode recording that more than 20% of...
In this week’s episode, we sit down with Jackie Nowicki, Director in the Education, Workforce, and Income Security team at the U.S. Government Accountability Office, to discuss GAO’s new report on school facilities. We discuss the scale o...
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This week, we're joined by Joe Snyder, CFO of Rochester Hills, Michigan, to talk about what happens when citizen engagement moves from less frequent public hearings to a year-round digital portal. We discuss the city's AI budget assistant,...
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Liz Farmer is an award-winning writer and expert in municipal finance.
Jared Walczak is president of Walczak Policy Consulting and a Senior Fellow at the Tax Foundation. He is also a member of the faculty of IPT, serves on the state tax advisory board of ISPL, and contributes to Tax Notes State magazine.
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