A recent report on Montgomery County’s economic outlook painted a misleadingly bleak picture and prompted misguided calls for tax cuts and deregulation. The truth is that Montgomery County has a fundamentally strong local economy and at the same time faces
Maryland lawmakers made significant—and mostly positive—changes to our state tax code in the recently concluded legislative session.
Baltimore City voters approved a ballot question in 2016 to create an affordable housing trust fund. The purpose of the fund is to allow the city to expand the amount of available housing that is affordable to low-income city residents.
A new report from the Job Opportunities Task Force shows the many ways Maryland’s criminal law system ensnares people who are struggling to get by on low incomes—especially Black and Latinx Marylanders—pushing many into prison and ultimately making it harder
The Senate’s education budget improves significantly on Gov. Hogan’s budget proposal. Adopting a proposal from the Budget and Taxation Committee, the chamber restored more than 70 percent of the cuts to public schools in the governor’s budget and set aside
Maryland’s Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education (also known as the Kirwan Commission) laid out an ambitious set of policy recommendations in its preliminary report last month. The commission’s proposals for early childhood education, funding equity, and building a
Maryland’s economy looks great on paper. We have a highly educated workforce, the highest median income in the country, and more millionaires per capita than any other state. At the same time, a small number of wealthy households have captured
The General Assembly committee that makes annual recommendations about the state’s budget made two things clear at its final meeting of the year last Tuesday: The state currently underinvests in the services Marylanders rely on, and the federal government’s budget
Each time they get sick or need to care for a sick child, 750,000 working Marylanders are still forced to choose between their health and a day’s pay because they aren’t able to earn paid sick time at work. The
Each time they get sick or need to care for a sick child, 750,000 working Marylanders are still forced to choose between their health and a day’s pay because they aren’t able to earn paid sick time at work.[i] Some
