In late July, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar delivered a bleak economic outlook for the state’s economy: the amount of general revenue funds available for the current biennium is expected to be $11.5 billion less than originally estimated. Should the state tap into its rainy day fund to offset the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and facilitate a stable recovery? Baker Institute Blog: https://bit.ly/38foRuA
Nov. 4, 2020, 11:57 a.m.
Richard Evans is the Baker Institute advisory board visiting fellow for the Center for Public Finance. He also holds appointments as director of the Open Source Economics Laboratory, nonresident fellow at the Tax Policy Center of the Urban Institute, …
John W. Diamond, Ph.D., is the Edward A. and Hermena Hancock Kelly Fellow in Public Finance and director of the Center for Public Finance at the Baker Institute, an adjunct professor of economics at Rice University and CEO of Tax …
