Recent Fiscal Focus Reports
Fiscal Focus: Predatory Lending
This new report summarizes three areas of predatory lending – payday loans, car title loans and subprime mortgages – and outlines policy recommendations designed to protect Kansas consumers from the harmful economic outcomes often associated with predatory lending.
Decoupling from Federal Bonus Depreciation | Brief
Asset Development Summit | Final Report
About Fiscal Focus
Kansas Action for Children works to improve the economic success of Kansas children and their families through its Fiscal Focus project. The goal of Fiscal Focus is to ensure a balanced tax system and budget process that protects the well-being of Kansas children and their families, and provides for a stable system of state revenues.
Kansas families must have the opportunity to meet their children’s basic economic and developmental needs such as food, clothing, transportation, health care, education and safe and affordable housing. Ensuring this opportunity requires that essential supports for families are a priority in the state budget process, that state finances are managed in a fiscally-sound manner, and that the tax system fairly distributes the tax burden among income levels. More specifically, the Fiscal Focus project includes:
- Analyses of the impact of state budgets and taxes on Kansas children and families
- Publication of short papers and in-depth reports on important fiscal matters
- Presentation of written and oral testimony regarding fiscal matters to the state legislature and other public bodies
- Distribution to the media and constituency groups of accurate and timely information on fiscal issues affecting Kansas families
- Collaboration with state and local organizations to improve public understanding of fiscal issues
