state budget

The contingency fund that usually covers salary adjustments was reduced by 90% in the current state budget.

Indiana child care providers are warning of closures and layoffs after state funding cuts reduced payments and created a waitlist for low-income families.

Indiana Governor Mike Braun has voiced support for the state’s READI regional grant program, intended to help finance economic development projects statewide. As IPR’s Thomas Ouellette reports, that’s as the new two-year state budget doesn’t include a third round of the grants.

While the vast majority of new laws passed each year take effect on July 1, some measures go into effect much later.

State agencies are likely to face more cuts in the upcoming fiscal year that begins July 1 because of spending requirements from the legislature included in the new budget.

Nearly $13 million in total state and federal public funding accounts for about 30% of the combined budgets of Indiana’s public media stations, according to a WFYI analysis of budget and funding data.

Senate Republicans unveil their version of Indiana's next two-year budget. House Republicans push through their property tax overhaul. And a committee scales back an anti-DEI measure.

The Senate Republican budget proposal, unveiled Thursday, differs from its House counterpart in three key ways.

House Republicans advance their budget proposal. A controversial immigration bill quickly clears the House chamber. And a ban on transgender women competing in college sports heads to the Senate.

Indiana House Democrats say the state budget should prioritize public education, health care funding, and relief for working-class Hoosiers.