“What would you do with an extra few hundred dollars each week, and a couple of extra days to go out and spend it? Perhaps you...
Rhode Island lawmakers must “stabilize spending, renew public investments and protect jobs—all while maintaining a robust public health response to COVID-19. By enacting progressive changes to...
“Two-thirds of the benefit from a tax exemption for retirement income would flow to the richest 20 percent of Rhode Islanders,” writes Andy Boardman, “and a...
“…this plan does not return to taxpayers the ability to control that which was theirs in the first place. It does the opposite: It invites a...
Lincoln Chafee is in the news again – this time for a prospective 2020 presidential bid on the Libertarian Party ticket. Last time Chafee made headlines,...
While you were sleeping Friday night, House leaders unveiled their state budget proposal for the coming fiscal year. The nearly 500-page document, handed to House Finance...
“Want to work? Sign on the line and don’t move.” Thus reads the headline of a 1998 Providence Journal story on non-compete agreements in Rhode Island....
If you didn’t hear about Warwick’s short-lived school lunch policy in local news, perhaps you read about it in the New York Times, NBC, NPR or...
Happy Tax Day! Across the country, today marks the deadline for individuals and businesses to file their income tax returns for tax year 2018. In Rhode...
This week, state lawmakers in the House Finance Committee considered a proposal to penalize businesses whose low-income employees receive Medicaid. On its face, the proposal appears...
