Our 2022 edition of How Alabama Cities Compare (the tenth edition of PARCA’s study of Alabama city finances) introduces a Read the full release.  

Expanding Medicaid coverage in Alabama could save the state almost $400 million per year over the next six years – Read the full release.  

Alabama had the nation’s second-lowest tax collections per capita in 2019. Only Tennessee had lower state and local tax revenue Read the full release.  

Alabama had the nation’s second-lowest tax collections per capita in 2018, the first time since the 1990s that any other Read the full release.  

PARCA’s 2020 Public Opinion Survey, completed before the onset of the COVID-19 in the U.S., hints at the challenges state Read the full release.  

Despite gaining some ground in 2017, Alabama state and local governments still collected less in taxes than state and local Read the full release.  

The thriving economy produced another year of surging tax collections for Alabama’s General Fund and Education Trust Fund (ETF), the Read the full release.  

With just a few hours remaining to file state and federal taxes, revisit our 2018 analysis of state and local Read the full release.  

Alabama’s state and local governments collect less per capita in taxes than state and local governments in any other state Read the full release.  

Background In late 2017, the Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama (PARCA) surveyed Alabama voters to determine their thoughts about Read the full release.