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Statement from Amy Blouin, Executive Director, Missouri Budget Project   Amy Blouin, Executive Director of the Missouri Budget Project, issued the following statement in response to today’s vote by the House of Representatives to pass its tax bill: “Despite claims to the Read More

Melissa works as a family advocate. A job she says she always wanted, because because she “wanted to be able to help people every day.” But before she finished her degree, she lived paycheck to paycheck, not knowing if she would be able to pay the next round of bills. Read More

The House Budget Committee Chair introduced substitute budget bills that will be the starting point for budget debate when the legislature returns from its spring break. Detailed tracking sheets can be viewed here. Some notable changes from the Governors recommendations include: Read More

The circuit breaker is a popular tax credit that helps Missouri seniors and people with disabilities with fixed incomes to stay in their homes by offsetting costs related to property taxes. Lawmakers have been discussing several proposals to eliminate renters from the credit. Read More

New Budget Chairman Scott Fitzpatrick welcomed 17 new members to the 35-member budget committee. Rep. Justin Alferman serves as vice-chairman and Rep. Michael Butler as the ranking minority member. This year, members of the budget committee will also be members of at least one of Read More

Senate Republicans took their first major step toward repealing the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, approving a budget blueprint that would allow them to gut the health care law without the threat of a Democratic filibuster. After a marathon session, the Senate voted 51 to 48 to Read More

The Senate Committee on Seniors, Families and Children heard testimony on a bill that would allow dramatic changes to the way Missouri operates its Medicaid program. Sometimes referred to as the Global Waiver bill or the Block Grant bill, Senate Bill 28 (Sater) would: Authorize Read More

Voters will decide on several tax issues on the November ballot. MBP’s positions are as follows. More information on each issue is below. MBP supports: Amendment 1 – Parks, Soil, & Water Sales Tax Amendment 3 – Cigarette Tax Increase for Early Education Read More

Statement from Amy Blouin, Missouri Budget Project Executive Director More than one in five Missouri kids are growing up in families that can’t afford the basics necessary for a good start to life because they make so little. Although poverty slightly declined since the previous Read More

Statement from Amy Blouin, Missouri Budget Project Executive Director New census data indicate that hundreds of thousands of Missourians still can’t get the health care they need to be healthy, productive members of their communities. About one in every ten, or 583,000 Read More