Center for Economic & Fiscal Policy

 

• 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.

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Delaware AFSCME spending | 11/28/2018

Delaware AFSCME is living large during the recession
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Closing Delawares job gap | 11/28/2018

The return to the pre-recession peak level of jobs in Delaware will be a slow process.
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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...