Dover Dash makes it easier to see which Delaware legislation could affect you. Explore CRI’s new Legislative Tracker and follow the bills that matter most.

Explore the Delaware Benefits Screener, an interactive online tool that estimates potential benefit eligibility, values, and how changes in income may affect Delaware households.

Delaware's biggest source of revenue is no longer growing—but state spending is. New analysis from the Caesar Rodney Institute examines why higher business taxes are masking a deeper fiscal problem, how House Bill 400 temporarily fills the gap, and why increasing competition from states like Texas should be a wake-up call for Delaware policymakers.

A new Delaware battery storage proposal promises grid benefits and energy reliability — but the study behind it omitted the full cost to ratepayers. Using the study’s own assumptions, the projected cost approaches $3.8 billion over ten years.

HB 234 could permanently shift control over major government employee costs — including healthcare and pensions — away from elected lawmakers and Delaware taxpayers. In this article, Dr. Stacie Beck explains why making collective bargaining a constitutional right could increase debt, reduce budget flexibility, and weaken Delaware’s economic competitiveness for years to come.

Delaware’s rising unemployment and shrinking workforce signal deeper issues that can’t be ignored. With tens of thousands missing from the labor force and a critical housing shortage, slow permitting processes are holding back growth. Learn how targeted federal and state reforms could unlock jobs, housing, and opportunity across the state.

Delaware’s 2025 labor data reveals a troubling paradox: employment rose while unemployment increased. A growing labor force outpaced job creation, leaving more people competing for fewer private-sector jobs. Nearly all employment gains came from healthcare, while manufacturing and other market-driven sectors declined, raising concerns about economic diversity and Delaware’s ability to support an aging population.

Delaware’s decision to decouple from federal accelerated depreciation is being framed as budget protection, but in practice it functions as a quiet tax increase on investment. Accelerated depreciation is not a bonus or windfall—it simply allows businesses to recover costs sooner. By slowing deductions for capital equipment and R&D, Delaware raises the effective cost of investing, weakens competitiveness, and signals policy uncertainty at a time when capital can easily move el

Delaware’s $400 million budget shortfall isn’t the result of federal tax changes—it’s the outcome of years of unchecked state spending. As the Caesar Rodney Institute explains, Dover’s leaders have expanded budgets through off-book appropriations and relied on temporary federal aid to mask structural problems. With surpluses fading, Delaware faces a fiscal crisis of its own making, demanding real reform—not blame-shifting to Washington.

Delaware's Top Revenue Sources: A Decade of Change Tracking Delaware's Tax Shifts and What's Ahead By Charlie Copeland Center for Economic & Fiscal Policy September 6, 2024 "Sometimes called Delaware's 'hidden sales tax,' the tax is levied on the seller of goods and services in the state, rather than the consumer."-- Jonathan Starkey, former News Journal reporter and current Chief of Staff to Governor Carney writing about Delaware's Gross Receipts Tax. In 2014, t