The Alabama Tax and Budget Handbook
We’re excited to unveil the third edition of The Alabama Tax and Budget Handbook! This handbook is a guide from Alabama Arise to help make our state’s tax and budget processes more accessible and understandable. The handbook uses graphs and illustrations to provide an overview of state finances and answer questions that affect every Alabamian: What do our tax dollars pay for? How does state spending work? Where does the state get its money?
The handbook looks at how those functions measure up in terms of adequacy and equity for Alabamians and how they compare to other states. Our handbook also recommends policy changes to make Alabama’s finances fairer, simpler, more adequate and more transparent. Check it out online and see how to request your very own print copy!
The Alabama Maternal Health Toolkit
This Alabama Arise toolkit provides critical information on maternal health, Medicaid coverage, health care access and community resources. We hope this guide will help new moms, expectant mothers, health care advocates and other readers understand available health care options and provide the confidence needed to take the next steps in securing and maintaining necessary care.
A Wheel in the Ditch
Our latest edition of The State of Working Alabama assesses the results of the drive to bring the automotive manufacturing industry to Alabama. In A Wheel in the Ditch: A Closer Look at Alabama’s Big Bet on the Auto Manufacturing Industry, Alabama Arise analyzes the industry’s rapid growth over the past two decades, and the ways in which it has met or fallen short of its potential. Our report shows the heavy use of tax incentives in our state’s economic development strategy. It also reveals how a worker-focused development strategy would bring better results than the company-focused strategy that Alabama has prioritized.
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