Center for Analysis of Delaware's Economy & Government Spending

Center for Analysis of Delaware's Economy & Government Spending

 
The Center's mission is critically important to Delaware because state policies continue to be an unfortunate catalyst for the clear decline of Delaware’s economy for far too long. For instance…
 
  • Over the past 20 years, Delaware’s per capita income has gone from the highest in the nation to below the national average.
 
  • According to the Delaware Department of Labor, employment is projected to grow at only 0.5% over the next decade, thereby trailing most of the nation.
 
  • Since 2009, Delaware has had five recessions compared to one in the rest of the country.
 
  • Including the variable Gross Receipts Tax, small business owners in Delaware often pay the highest personal income tax rates in America. 
 
In partnership with other like-minded Delaware organizations, the primary goals of this Center are to develop bi-partisan strategies and alternative policy options that will bring transparency, regulatory reform, and improved effectiveness to the tens of billions of dollars spent by the State every year.
 

DELDOT - growing in the wrong places? | 11/28/2018

Over the past five fiscal years the operating budget of the Delaware Department of Transportation (DELDOT) has grown 18% while inflation rose 7%. So, DELDOT has been living large, yet the winners and losers inside the Department are curious.   The big winner with a 45% budget increase over th...

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Delaware Exports | 11/28/2018

Delaware’s export patterns indicate that Delaware’s economy, as with the rest of the nation, is increasingly reliant on the production of technologically sophisticated products, such as pharmaceuticals. Delaware’s potential for job growth depends upon its ability to provide hi...

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CIGNA and State funds | 11/28/2018

Is a $2.4 million grant to CIGNA an appropriate use of state funds?
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Business tax climate in Delaware | 11/28/2018

Thanks to no sales tax and low property taxes, Delaware has a competitive business tax climate.
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Employment and Delawares tax burden | 11/28/2018

Over time increases in Delawares state and local government tax burden reduces the growth of total employment in the First State.
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No Delaware double dip | 11/28/2018

Regardless of what happens in coming months in the national economy, Delaware will avoid a double dip.
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Delaware tops in economic freedom | 11/28/2018

The latest Fraser Institute ranking places Delaware number one among the states in economic freedom.
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Delaware struggling with debt | 11/28/2018

The Daliy Beast reports that Delaware is over the top on state government debt.
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Delaware: a state of debt | 11/28/2018

For a number of years the state of Delaware has using capital funds to cover operating costs.
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Death by Regulation | 11/28/2018

The passage of New Castle County’s 1998 Uniform Development Code (UDC) swiftly halted—and continues to harm-- economic growth and development. Within just a few years employment in the County had flat-lined, more people were moving out of NCC than were moving in, residential permits shru...

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