As states craft their FY 2024 budgets, fiscal conditions overall remain stable. Revenues have outperformed expectations, and states are largely prepared for a modest economic downturn.

Twenty-nine states, in addition to Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, allow sports betting, and 27 of those also allow betting on mobile devices.

In states flush with federal pandemic cash, lawmakers have enacted a historic amount of income tax relief. But that could result in more reliance on the regressive sales tax.

Economist Christopher Thornberg predicts that although the economic path ahead will be bumpy, a recession is not inevitable.

NCSL outlines the budgeting practices state policymakers can use to mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from extreme climate events.

Voters across the country approved several new tax and budget initiatives in the 2022 midterm elections.