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Center policy associate discusses housing costs for Idahoans on fixed incomes

  • Kendra Knighten, one of the Center’s policy associates, spoke with two Idaho Statesman reporters about the unique challenges Idahoans on fixed incomes face as

BoiseDev quotes Center’s director on possible changes to sales tax formula

  • The Center’s director, Alejandra Cerna Rios, spoke with BoiseDev about a possible change in Idaho’s sales tax formula aimed helping reduce property taxes. Cerna

The Center’s work on juvenile court fees draws attention from Boise State Public Radio

  • The Center’s examination of fees in the juvenile court system and the burden they can place on families drew the interest of Boise State

The Center’s director talks grocery tax credit with Idaho Statesman

  • The Idaho Legislature is considering a new proposal to raise the grocery tax credit from $100 per person to $120 per person, and from

Statement from the Center on Gov. Brad Little’s State of the State Address

  • “I applaud and thank Governor Little for thinking of Idaho’s working families in his State of the State Address today. The extra revenue we

The Center’s Kendra Knighten talks housing with the Idaho Statesman

  • Fair market rent for a two-bedroom home in Canyon County is $1,002, as Kendra Knighten, policy associate for the Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy,

The Center’s report on teacher pay referenced in Idaho Statesman

  • Pay for Idaho teachers is less than it is in neighboring states, as the Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy found in a September 2021

KTVB spotlights the Center’s analysis of teacher pay in Idaho

  • Teacher pay is lower in Idaho than in neighboring states, an Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy analysis found. In fact, salaries for Idaho’s teachers

Idaho Statesman cites the Center’s analysis of tax legislation

  • The Idaho Statesman, in an August 2021 story about Idaho legislation that cut $382.9 million in income tax to residents, cited a report from

KBOI-2 highlights the Center’s analysis of income tax relief bill

  • Boise’s KBOI-2 in May 2021 cited the Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy’s analysis of House Bill 380, an income tax relief bill that emerged

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