No More Tax Giveaways

While many Florida families struggle to make ends meet, elected officials in Tallahassee plan to cut vital services AND give away more tax money through new loopholes and exemptions.

> Read FCFEP Executive Director John Hall’s op-ed in the St. Petersburg Times.


Florida’s Latest Education Ranking Deserves Closer Look

The recent high ranking that Florida received from a national education publication isn’t quite the cause for celebration that it might seem at first. In fact, at the same time Education Week gave Florida high grades in some areas, it also pointed out glaring shortcomings which, if not addressed, threaten the state’s economic wellbeing.

> Read the Issue Brief.

 
Cutting Florida's Corporate Income Tax Would Hurt the State

Here we are at the bottom of a deep hole, and now Gov. Charlie Crist offers us a shovel when we could really use a ladder.

The crushing irony of a stubborn recession like this one is that the needs of ordinary families grow at the same time the resources available to the state to meet them drops.  Like other states, Florida has seen a bigger decline in revenues than ever before.

The governor's recent proposal to reduce or eliminate Florida's corporate income tax would dig the hole deeper, costing the state up to $1.5 billion that could help struggling families with education, healthcare and any number of other important services.

> Read the op-ed by FCFEP Executive Director John Hall in the Miami Herald.

 
About 425,000 in Florida Kept Out of Poverty By Recovery Act Provisions

In addition to boosting the economy and saving and creating jobs, seven provisions of the federal recovery act are preventing about 425,000 residents of Florida from living in poverty this year, according to a new study.

> Read the full news release

 
Florida’s Continuing Budget Problems – More of the Same in 2010-2011

Like a scratched record that keeps playing the same song over and over, Florida's budget is also playing the same song—lack of adequate revenues to meet the growing needs of its residents.

Soon after the 2009–10 fiscal year began on July 1, 2009, the Legislative Office of Economic and Demographic Research revised its estimates of General Revenue and of funding needs—putting the budget "in the hole" by more than $432 million.

> Read the Budget Brief

 
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The Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy conducts independent research and educates the public and policymakers on state fiscal and economic policies with particular attention to their impact on low- and moderate-income families, individuals and small businesses.