by Lisa Finaldi | Feb 23, 2023
Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg is looking to tap the knowledge and experience of the Cincinnati Preschool Promise for this Kentucky “sister city.” Starting in November 2016, Cincinnati voters approved, and in 2020 renewed, a property tax referendum to...
by Lisa Finaldi | Feb 14, 2023
When Multnomah County taxpayers voted in 2020 to fund preschool through income tax, advocates across the country looked to this Oregon community as a model for raising dedicated revenue. The income tax is levied on earners making $125,000 or more annually. While...
by Lisa Finaldi | Jan 20, 2023
With growing calls from voters for states to provide greater access to early learning programs such as prekindergarten, more states are answering the call. And they may not be the states you assume are out in front. States with at least seventy percent of...
by Lisa Finaldi | Oct 31, 2022
Since 2017, a beverage sales tax in Philadelphia has funded the PHLpreK program for 3-and-4-year-olds, and upgraded recreation centers and libraries across the city. Sugar sweetened drinks are taxed 1.5-cents per ounce tax on beverage distribution, including syrups...
by Lisa Finaldi | Oct 17, 2022
The National Conference of State Legislatures provides information and resources about states that allow citizen initiative and popular referendum; the processes; and a searchable ballot measure database from the1800s through the present by state, topic, keyword,...
