Stateline's annual look at the major budget and policy developments in state legislatures across the country.
Legislative Review 2011
June 13, 2011
- Stateline Story
- Budget, Medicaid, Voter Identification, Abortion, Legislative Politics, Collective Bargaining
In an Era of One-Party Rule, Republicans Pass a Sweeping State Agenda
Republicans held enormous political leverage in state legislatures this year. They used it to shrink spending, take on labor unions and push long-stalled social legislation in one of the most eventful legislative years in memory.Part one of a weeklong series. More
June 14, 2011
- Stateline Story
- School Funding, Legislative Politics
The Year School Budget Cuts Went Straight to the Classroom
This has been a season of changes in school funding and policy unlike any in recent memory. There may be nothing like it for a long time. Part two of a weeklong series More
June 15, 2011
- Stateline Story
- Budget, Legislative Politics
States Balance Budgets With Cuts, Not Taxes
Republicans swept into statehouses this year pledging to shrink the size of government. For many of them, big budget gaps represented not a crisis but an opportunity to realign state government around a smaller mission. Part three in a weeklong series More
June 16, 2011
- Stateline Story
- Affordable Care Act, Legislative Politics
Federal Health Law Driving State Debates
Legislatures argued about quite a few health care bills in 2011. At the root of most of them was the necessity of coping with the massive federal law scheduled to take full effect in 2014. Part four in a weeklong series More
June 17, 2011
- Stateline Story
- Labor , Legislative Politics
Anti-Union Republicans Seize Their Moment
Republicans long accustomed to fighting against public-sector labor unions finally achieved power in states where they had been in the minority for years. And they made the unions pay for it.Last in a weeklong series More
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