This is a collection of tax and budget information created by Kansas Action for Children staff as part of the Kansas Center for Economic Growth project.
Budget policy reports
- Lay of the land: Understanding commodity prices, tax policy and the Kansas economy
- Oppose Senate Concurrent Resolution 1611
- Aid to Locals Report: 2017 Update
- Kansas Can’t Afford Securitization: Selling Off Children’s Initiatives Fund Proceeds Makes the State’s Already Shaky Finances Worse
- The Future of Kansas is Running on Fumes
- Who Pays? The Cost of Kansas’ Tax Cuts for Local Communities
- Kansas’ Self-Made Fiscal Cliff
Tax policy reports
- 11 questions and answers about Senate Bill 22
- Do tax breaks boost growth?
- Revenue for the 21st Century: Taxing internet sales in Kansas
- Senate Bill 30: The Legislature Sets Kansas on the Road to Recovery
- A Flat Tax Would Only Worsen Kansas’ Budget Crisis
- New Legislative Experiment Would Lock in Crisis Budgeting Brought on by Tax Cuts
- A Guide to Comprehensive Tax Reform in Kansas
- Tax Cuts Taking a Toll on Kansas Communities
- EITC: A Tax Credit That Works For Working Families
- Trailing the Competition: Governor’s Measures of Economic Growth Show Kansas Behind Region
- Who Pays? Kansas State & Local Taxes in 2015
- Proof positive? Revenue gains don’t mean tax policy’s working
- It’s Not Always Sunnier in Florida
- "A Lost Decade” — Revisiting Kansas’ past, so we can redirect its future
Education policy reports
- The Cost of Admission: Higher Education in Kansas
- Kansas Public Education: The Foundation for Economic Growth
- Quality at Risk: Impact of Education Cuts
- Kansas Schools Struggle With Recent Budget Cuts
- Kansas Staring Up from a Deep Education Funding Hole
- Governor’s Budget Proposal Would Dig Kansas’ Education Funding Hole Even Deeper
Health policy reports
- 2018 Kansas Health & Prosperity Index (HAPI)
- Kansas’ Health and Prosperity Index (HAPI): 2016
- Medicaid Expansion: A Pro-growth Policy
Earned Income Tax Credit reports
- EITC 101: The Basics
- The EITC: Working for Kansas
- A Tax Credit that Works for Working Families
- Neighboring States Outshine Kansas
Infographics
- Pocket guide to the Kansas tax experiment
- Paying the price
- If poverty were a city in Kansas ...
- Kansans: Moving on out
- A wilting Kansas economy
- Kansas taxes in 2016 -- who pays?
- Neighboring states outshine Kansas
- Tax credits help military families make ends meet
- Kansas is still living paycheck to paycheck
- Governor's proposed solution makes Kansas' crisis permanent
- Preserve Kansas' Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)
- Sold to: The people of Kansas
- Kansas' private job growth
- Education cuts
- What's fueling job growth?
- If poverty were a city in Kansas ... (original)
- The cost of Kansas' tax cuts
- How do SNAP cuts affect Kansans?
- Open for business? Look again
- Medicaid expansion benefits hard-working Kansans
- Kansas taxes in 2013 -- who pays?
- No jobs boom from Kansas tax cuts
KCEG legislative testimony
- August 28, 2019: KCEG comments to the SNAP Program Design Branch on proposed rule making on revision of categorical eligibility
- March 13, 2019: KCEG testimony to the House Committee on Federal and State Affairs in opposition to HCR 5009
- Feb. 20, 2019: KCEG testimony to House Taxation Committee in opposition to SB 22
- Jan. 30, 2019: KCEG testimony to House Taxation Committee in support of HB 2043
- Jan. 30, 2019: KCEG testimony to Senate Ways and Means Committee in support of of SB 14
- Jan. 29, 2019: KCEG testimony to Senate Select Committee on Federal Tax Code Implementation in opposition to SB 22
- Jan. 28, 2019: KCEG comment to the Rural Development Innovation Center on Proposed Information Collection on 2020 Census
- April 3, 2018: KCEG testimony to House Judiciary Committee in opposition to HCR 5029
- March 22, 2018: KCEG testimony to Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee in support of SB 376
- March 15, 2018: KCEG testimony to House Taxation Committee in support of HB 2231
- March 14, 2018: KCEG testimony to House Taxation Committee as neutral on HB 2761
- March 14, 2018: KCEG testimony to House Taxation Committee as neutral on HB 2569
- March 12, 2018: KCEG testimony to House Taxation Committee in support of HB 2661
- March 12, 2018: KCEG testimony to House Taxation Committee in support of HB 2618
- March 12, 2018: KCEG testimony to House Taxation Committee in support of HB 2616
- March 6, 2018: KCEG testimony to House Taxation Committee as neutral on HB 2740
- March 5, 2018: KCEG testimony to House Taxation Committee in support of HB 2753
- March 1, 2018: KCEG testimony to House Taxation Committee in support of HB 2756
- Feb. 19, 2018: KCEG testimony to House Taxation Committee as neutral on HB 2572
- Feb. 14, 2018: KCEG testimony to Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee in opposition to SCR 1611
- Feb. 14, 2018: KCEG testimony to Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee in support of SB 38
- Feb. 1, 2018: KCEG testimony to Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee in support of SCR 1604
- Jan. 25, 2018: KCEG testimony to House Corrections and Juvenile Justice in opposition to HB 2453
- March 28, 2017: KCEG testimony to Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee as neutral on SB 215
- March 23, 2017: KCEG testimony to the House Taxation Committee in support of HB 2382
- March 21, 2017: KCEG testimony to the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee as neutral on SB 214
- March 20, 2017: KCEG testimony to the House Taxation Committee in opposition to HB 2385
- March 20, 2017: KCEG testimony to the House Taxation Committee in opposition to HB 2395
- March 20, 2017: KCEG testimony to the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee in support of HB 2064
- March 17, 2017: KCEG testimony to the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee in support of SB 224
- March 16, 2017: KCEG testimony to the House Appropriations Committee in opposition to HB 2340
- March 15, 2017: KCEG testimony to the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee in opposition to SCR 1602
- March 14, 2017: KCEG testimony to the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee as neutral on SB 192
- Feb. 16, 2017: KCEG testimony to the House Taxation Committee in opposition to HB 2315
- Feb. 14, 2017: KCEG testimony (Goossen) to the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee in support of SB 188
- Feb. 14, 2017: KCEG testimony (Holliday) to the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee in support of SB 188
- Feb. 13, 2017: KCEG testimony to the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee in opposition to SB 175
- Feb. 13, 2017: KCEG testimony to the House Federal and State Affairs Committee in opposition to HCR 5005
- Feb. 8, 2017: KCEG testimony to the House Health and Human Services Committee in support of HB 2064
- Feb. 8, 2017: KCEG testimony to the House Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee in opposition to changes within HB 2264
- Feb. 7, 2017: KCEG testimony (Goossen) to the House Taxation Committee in support of HB 2237
- Feb. 7, 2017: KCEG testimony (Holliday) to the House Taxation Committee in support of HB 2237
- Feb. 6, 2017: KCEG testimony to the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee as neutral on SB 147
- Feb. 2, 2017: KCEG testimony to the House Taxation Committee as neutral on HB 2178
- Jan. 19, 2017: KCEG testimony to the House Taxation Committee as neutral on HB 2023
- March 18, 2016: KCEG testimony to the House Appropriations Committee as neutral on HB 2734
- March 17, 2016 : KCEG testimony to the Senate Ways and Means Committee as neutral on SB 509
- March 15, 2016: KCEG testimony to the House Taxation Committee as neutral on HB 2444
- March 7, 2016: KCEG testimony to the House Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee in support of SB 367
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