"Policy Brief: 1st Quarter 2015 Employment Update" includes Center for Fiscal Policy Economist Dr. Vance Ginn's interpretation of last quarter's employment numbers as they related to The Texas Model and state legislature.
My Journey to Understand El Paso’s Lobbying Expenses
In 2019, the Texas Legislature passed a law (House Bill 1495) to help correct “unethical political behavior” at the local level. One key provision in the law requires political subdivisions to disclose the amount of money being spent to lobby the legislature in their proposed budgets. As more fully articulated in Sec. 140.0045 (b)(2) of...