Renzo DowneyNovember 21, 2019
4min498
The ballot measure would make future amendments face two rounds at the ballot box.
Tag: Office of Economic and Demographic Research
Renzo DowneyNovember 21, 2019
A.G. GancarskiOctober 18, 2019
7min2858
Two more meetings await.
Christine Jordan SextonAugust 7, 2019
5min309
“It seems like the more digging we do the more questions pop up."
Jacob OglesMay 24, 2019
3min469
New law requires additional budget reports from cities, counties.
Michael MolineFebruary 21, 2019
5min656
“You start $10 billion in the hole.”
A.G. GancarskiJanuary 24, 2019
4min358
When it comes to gambling money to the state, the key word is "uncertainty."
Danny McAuliffeJanuary 8, 2019
4min255
A possible economic contraction and anticipated needs for new money could result in lawmakers acting more conservatively as they forge the state’s nearly $90 billion spending plan. Chief legislative economist Amy Baker gave a bittersweet update to state House budget committee members on Tuesday. Florida’s economic indicators are healthy, with some even better than pre-recession levels, […]
Jim RosicaDecember 12, 2018
4min314
A healthy but also fragile economy led the Senate’s budget chief to tell fellow lawmakers they need to be “very, very conservative” in writing the state’s next yearly budget. Indeed, with chief legislative economist Amy Baker saying the state needs roughly $6 billion in new money over the next three years just to keep up, Sen. Rob […]
Michael MolineAugust 13, 2018
3min360
State economists on Monday found millions of extra dollars for the state’s public schools, but also a $29 million shortfall in takings from tobacco taxes and a landmark legal settlement with the tobacco companies. The Revenue Estimating Conference projected that $128.4 million would remain unspent at the end of this fiscal year within the Educational […]
Michael MolineAugust 7, 2018
2min438
Florida’s Medicare managed care program will cost $732 million less that the Legislature provided during this fiscal year, a panel of state economists concluded Monday. But the rate of savings in that program will slack off as the program matures, said Amy Baker, coordinator for the state Office of Economic and Demographic Research. She chaired […]