About Alabama

The federal government has spent more than it has taken in during 44 of the last 50 years. The last balanced budgets occurred in the

Alabama’s unemployment rate in May stood at 9.6 percent, slightly higher than a year earlier and well above the national rate of 9.1 percent. Seven

On its last session day, the Alabama Legislature completed work on the two large state budgets for the coming fiscal year. These were hard budgets

The state Legislature has developed a plan for revising the Alabama Constitution, which was adopted in 1901 and is widely held to have major flaws

The state of Alabama is in the middle of its biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, and there are many proposals

Each year, the Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama conducts a public opinion survey on issues related to state government. While some questions are unique

One of Gov. Robert Bentley’s first acts in January was to issue an executive order creating the Alabama Commission on Improving State Government. The state

The Legislative Fiscal Office brought gloomy estimates of state finances to members of the Legislature at their December orientation meeting. The staff report suggests that