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US: Tax-cut bill includes updates to jobless benefits system
Posted February 22, 2012 by By ANNIE LOWREY
Tucked into a $140 billion bill extending emergency jobless benefits and a temporary cut to payroll taxes are several provisions intended to modernize the country’s outdated unemployment insurance system.
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MA: On Deval Patrick’s watch, six-figure salaries spike
Posted February 22, 2012 by By Erin Smith and Joe Dwinell
Punching the clock during the Patrick administration has been a six-figure bonanza for thousands of lucky state workers, as salary figures released yesterday show the number of public employees taking home $100,000 or more a year has skyrocketed by nea…
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KS: Brownback school-funding plan bogged down in Kansas Legislature
Posted February 22, 2012 by By Brad Cooper
As the Kansas legislative session approaches its halfway point, the future of Gov. Sam Brownback’s education plan is murky. After two days of meetings, the chairman of the Senate Education Committee said Tuesday that she couldn’t predict the fate of th…
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GA: Committee endorses bill to reduce Georgia’s unemployment benefits
Posted February 22, 2012 by By Christopher Quinn
The payment of state unemployment benefits would drop from 26 weeks to a sliding scale of 12 to 20 weeks under a bill approved Tuesday by the state Senate Insurance and Labor Committee.
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AR: Beebe — GOP budget plan mostly ‘non-starter’
Posted February 22, 2012 by By John Lyon
A Republican proposal to cut $21 million from Gov. Mike Beebe’s $4.7 billion proposed budget for the next fiscal year is mostly unacceptable, Beebe said today.
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AR: Budget panel refers school takeover to subcommittee
Posted February 22, 2012 by By Staff
The Joint Budget Committee today referred to a subcommittee an amendment to the state Department of Education’s budget that would increase from two years to five the time the department can maintain control over a fiscally distressed school districts t…
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AR: State turns down offer to settle road builder’s claim
Posted February 22, 2012 by By Alison Sider
The state Highway and Transportation Department rejected an Oklahoma construction company’s offer to accept $4.9 million to settle a $6.5 million claim, despite lawmakers’ encouragement that the two reach an agreement.
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AL: Alabama Senate votes to stop convicted officials pensions
Posted February 22, 2012 by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Alabama Senate has passed a bill that would stop convicted public officials and public employees from receiving taxpayer-funded pension benefits.
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AR: Beebe sees service sag, layoffs in GOP plan
Posted February 22, 2012 by By Michael Wickline and Sarah D. Wire
The Republican budget proposal will likely lead to at least 61 workers being laid off and services being cut, including closing a police training academy in Northwest Arkansas, keeping state parks open fewer hours and less money for rural community gra…
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WY: The Wyoming House and Senate give proposed $3.2 billion budget bill its first hearing
Posted February 22, 2012 by By Ben Neary, The Associated Press
Both houses of the Wyoming Legislature on Tuesday began the process of working through a budget bill that calls for keeping state spending essentially flat over the next two years.