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Rhode Island’s Medicaid Trajectory

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State Policy and Rising Health Care Costs Push Spending Past Revenues Despite Declining Enrollments Under New Federal Restrictions Rhode Island’s Medicaid program represents the state’s largest public investment, representing over one-third of total state budget spending. Medicaid provides a critical safety net for nearly three in ten Rhode Islanders and fuels the state’s healthcare sector. However, sustaining this massive program poses a critical fiscal challenge.  RIPEC’s comprehensive

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Rhode Island Property Taxes in FY 2026: Higher Increases and Growing Tax Shifts

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Rhode Island Property Tax Update Higher Tax Increases in FY 2026 Burdens Continue to Shift to Businesses and Renters In FY 2026, about one in five municipalities exceeded the state-mandated 4.0 percent levy cap, andoverall property tax increases were higher than at any point in the last decade. As these increasestake hold, landlords, renters, and

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Rhode Island’s Housing Strategy: High Costs, High Subsidies, Low Returns

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Rhode Island’s Housing Strategy Rhode Island’s housing policies are in transition, moving from fragmented governance and historical underinvestment to a centralized strategy backed by record levels of capital directed toward housing production and preservation. Despite these historic outlays, policies that drive up production costs and subsidies have resulted in the production of relatively few housing

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RIPEC Brief Finds Rhode Island’s Housing Resources Commission in Need of Reform

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PROVIDENCE, RI –  The Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council (RIPEC) today released a policy brief highlighting issues with the design and operations of Rhode Island’s Housing Resources Commission (HRC). RIPEC found that the HRC has wide statutory authority over housing policy and programming and shares many of the same top-line responsibilities with the Department of

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RIPEC Analyzes Recent Investments in Affordable Housing

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council (RIPEC) today published an analysis of Rhode Island housing policy, with a focus on the state’s recent investments in affordable housing. Over the past few years, the state has made significant investments in affordable housing and enacted new policies to increase Rhode Island’s housing supply. With

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RIPEC Analyzes Rhode Island’s Business Tax Climate

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council released today its analysis of Rhode Island’s business tax climate, finding that the state has improved its standing in the Tax Foundation’s Business Tax Climate Index from 42nd to 41st but still ranks in the bottom ten states. RIPEC’s brief also assesses potential tax law changes

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RIPEC Analyzes the Governor’s FY 2024 Budget and the State’s Fiscal Outlook

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Providence, R.I. – The Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council (RIPEC) released a report today analyzing Governor Daniel J. McKee’s proposed fiscal year (FY) 2024 budget, revisions to the FY 2023 budget, and the state’s fiscal outlook. RIPEC found that the governor’s proposed FY 2024 budget represents the continuation of a level of total spending and

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Rhode Island Falls to the Bottom Ten States in Business Tax Climate Index

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PROVIDENCE, RI – An analysis of the Tax Foundation’s 2023 Business Tax Climate Index (the Index) by the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council shows Rhode Island entered the bottom ten states for business tax competitiveness for the first time since 2015, ranking 42nd highest (ninth worst) in the nation.  The Index annually demonstrates how competitive

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Rhode Island’s FY 2023 Enacted Budget and Fiscal Outlook

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Providence, R.I. – The Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council (RIPEC) released a report today analyzing the state’s fiscal year (FY) 2023 budget and the fiscal outlook in future budget years.  The FY 2023 budget is the state’s third consecutive annual budget characterized by a massive influx of federal COVID-19 relief dollars and the second consecutive

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RIPEC Supports Borrowing for State Bond Referenda

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council released today an analysis of the seven ballot initiatives totaling $400 million to be considered by Rhode Island voters at a special election on March 2, 2021. The report looks at each bond referendum in terms of its return on investment, consistency with long-term state debt

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