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API: Top 10 Things the AL Legislature Should Accomplish in 2024
The Regular Session of the Alabama Legislature is upon us. Though the only statutory requirement of our state legislature is to pass balanced budgets, there will be literally hundreds of bills considered and debated as our elected leadership moves th ...
Expanding Medicaid Discourages Work
The Alabama Policy Institute (API) is continuing the fight against expanding Medicaid in the Yellowhammer State. API Director Stephanie Smith said Alabama should focus on making the private healthcare system better for people in the state instead of ...
API report reveals hurdles, hope for universal school choice in Alabama
The Alabama Policy Institute released its 2023-2024 Education Freedom in Alabama report. Part of the data compiled, according to the organization, demonstrates why implementing and attaining universal school choice within the state has proven di ...
Alabama is the first state in the nation to eliminate the overtime tax!
Alabama’s policy on taxing overtime pay changed Jan. 1. Starting Monday, full-time hourly workers in the state pay no state income tax on overtime pay, or pay they receive for working more than 40 hours in a week. Previously, workers paid 5% state ta ...
API Report warns that gambling, state lotto legalizations comes with downsides
A new report by the Alabama Policy Institute (API) suggests that a gambling expansion would have negative repercussions.API commissioned Dr. John Hill to prepare an in-depth report on gambling and the effects of expanding legalized gambling in the st ...
API Supports Bipartisan Overtime Tax Exemption Bill
Birmingham, Ala. - Today (April 3rd, 2023), the Alabama Policy Institute (API) announced its support for HB217, to exempt full-time hourly waged employees from paying taxes on work performed in excess of 40 hours per week. House Bill 217 is sponso ...
Top Ten Things the Alabama Legislature Should Accomplish in 2023
The Regular Session of the Alabama Legislature will resume Tuesday. Though the only statutory requirement of our state legislature is to pass balanced budgets, there will be literally hundreds of bills considered and debated as our elected leadership ...
Are Alabama’s state revenue streams too ‘wild’ to enact permanent tax cuts?
The question of what to do with Alabama’s $3 billion revenue surplus continues as the 2023 Alabama legislature regular session approaches.Rep. Danny Garrett (R-Trussville), the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Education Committee, discussed the p ...
Tax cuts would benefit Alabama more than a one-time rebate
Tax cuts would benefit the state more than one-time rebate checks, Mississippi Center for Public Policy President and CEO Douglas Carswell recently explained. This call for permanent tax cuts rather than rebates comes despite the Mississippi legislat ...