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Eventually, hopefully, change will come. There are plenty of takeaways from Wednesday’s Capitol News Illinois story headlined: “Budget pressures could impact K-12 funding; State Board of Education gets briefing on fiscal landscape ahead.” This is a surprise only to those not paying attention. All state agencies have been on notice since at least Nov. 1,…

Ketchikan City Hall. (Jack Darrell/KRBD) Rising costs were a recurring theme in the City of Ketchikan’s budget discussions for next year. The Ketchikan City Council approved the city’s two overarching budgets at their regular meeting Thursday night. Those are the General Government budget and the budgets for the city-owned Ketchikan Public Utilities.  The Council received…

By Art Keene Note: This is the second of two articles  exploring participatory budgeting (PB) as a way to build greater civic participation and inject more creativity and diversity into local governance. Our previous article on how to start a participatory budget program can be viewed here.  This article offers three case studies of participatory budgeting,…

Although fewer organizations report difficulty with attraction and retention, salary increase budgets at U.S. companies are projected to remain at the same level as last year. While salary increase budgets are stabilizing, with 2025 planned increases projected to be at 3.7% on average compared with the 3.8% average budget awarded in 2024, they remain higher…

New Delhi: India has, for years, been the country receiving highest remittances globally, and this year was no different. India retained the number one spot of being the country which saw the maximum amount of monetary inflow – $129 billion – from its diaspora. Here are some insightful facts about remittances received by India in…

Alan Brown/Visionkick / iStock.com Being smart about budgeting is essential when planning holiday travel. Between flights, hotels and meals, costs can add up quickly, and delays or last-minute changes can add to the expense. Read More: 5 Google Flights Tricks To Help You Land the Cheapest Holiday Airfare Check Out: 6 US Cities Where You…

The Space Force needs more money to tackle its growing mission and support the joint force—but the Pentagon can’t raid the Air Force’s budget to pay that bill, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall said Dec. 19.  With one month left in his tenure before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, Kendall repeatedly pressed for more…

DENVER, CO – Democratic members of the Joint Budget Committee (JBC) today released the following statements after the Legislative Council Staff and the Office of State Planning and Budgeting delivered the December quarterly economic and revenue forecasts. “Today’s economic forecast shows relatively good news for Colorado and for families’ budgets as increasing wages and easing…

As President Joe Biden prepares to leave office in January, his administration’s legacy of surging inflation has delivered another year of increased Christmas food prices for Americans. Various Christmas meal staples will be costlier this year, according to an end-of-year report from Expana, the world’s largest IOSCO-assured agrifood price reporting agency. Expana’s Main Meal Index,…

NORRISTOWN, Pa. – The Montgomery County Commissioners’ final meeting of 2024 featured the final approval of the 2025 General Fund budget by a 2 to 1 vote with commissioner Thomas DiBello opposed. By unanimous votes, the commissioners approved 8 non-General Fund budgets for 2025 and the 2025 capital fund budget. County chief financial officer, Dean…