Tennessee State Budget:
Information, Issues, Problems, and Solutions

Tennessee Budget Information

• Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
  (Tennessee Historical Society and University of Tennessee Press)
• State Government: Tennessee (GovEngine.com)
• Public Campaign: Clean Money, Clean Elections
• The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report (Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Tennessee (The Way We Tax, Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Comparing the Total Tax Burden in Each State to Just the State/Local Tax Burden, 2002 (Tax Foundation)
• Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, second edition, January 2003
  (Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy)
• Tennessee Taxes Hit Poor and Middle Class Far Harder Than the Wealthy, January 2003
  (Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
• State Finance Data (Tax Foundation)
• U.S. States and Territories (Law Library of Congress)
• Uncle Sam's Reference Book: City and County Data Book (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Tennessee (2002 State New Economy Index, Progressive Policy Institute)
• State Tax Systems Are Becoming Increasingly Inequitable
  (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, second edition, January 2003
  (Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy)
• Despite Past Boom Times, Income Gaps Have Widened in 45 States Over the Past Twenty Years (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Income Inequality Has Increased in Tennessee Since the 1970s
  (Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends, April 2002, Economic Policy Institute/Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, second edition, January 2003
  (Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy)
• Tennessee Taxes Hit Poor and Middle Class Far Harder Than the Wealthy, January 2003
  (Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
• Study on Persistent Poverty in the South (Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia)
• Internet Tutorials (University of Albany Libraries)
• Center for Business and Economic Research (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
• Tennessee Statistical Abstract
  (Center for Business and Economic Research, University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
• The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings
  July 2002, U.S. Census Bureau Special Report
• Economic Profiles of the 50 U.S. States and the District of Columbia
  (Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School)
• Tennessee (The Way We Tax, Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Tennessee Division of Budget (official state site)
• Tennessee Dollars: Where Do They Come From? Where Do They Go?
  (NPT-TV, PBS Nashville)
• The Citizens' Guide to the Tennessee Budget [Adobe Acrobat *.pdf format]
  (Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations)
• State Budget 2002 (Nashville Tennessean)
• 2003 Legislative Update (Tennessee Conference of AAUP)
• Fact Book, 2002-03 (Tennessee General Assembly)
  (*.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
• U.S. States and Territories (Law Library of Congress)
• Federal, State, and Local Governments: State Government Finances (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Public Campaign: Clean Money, Clean Elections
• Tennessee Anytime.com (Official Tennessee site)
• State Budget 2002 (Nashville Tennessean)
• "Taxing Tennessee," Knoxville News-Sentinel (KnoxNews.com)

A State Perspective:
How Does Tennessee Government Measure Up?

• Uncle Sam's Reference Book: City and County Data Book (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Income Inequality Has Increased in Tennessee Since the 1970s
  (Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends, April 2002, Economic Policy Institute/Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report (Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Tennessee (The Way We Tax, Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, second edition, January 2003
  (Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy)
• Tennessee Taxes Hit Poor and Middle Class Far Harder Than the Wealthy, January 2003
  (Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
• Study on Persistent Poverty in the South (Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia)
• State Finance Data (Tax Foundation)
• Public Campaign: Clean Money, Clean Elections
• U.S. States and Territories (Law Library of Congress)
• Uncle Sam's Reference Book: City and County Data Book (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Tennessee (Law Library of Congress)
• State Government: Tennessee (GovEngine.com)
• Center for Business and Economic Research Publications (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
• Tennessee Statistical Abstract, 2000
  (Center for Business and Economic Research, University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
• Economic Profiles of the 50 U.S. States and the District of Columbia
  (Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School)
• Governing: The Magazine of States and Localities
• Grading the States 2001: A Management Report Card
  (Government Performance Project)
• The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report (Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Tennessee (The Way We Tax, Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Quality, Affordability, and Access: Americans Speak on Higher Education, June 2003 (ETS)
• The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings
  July 2002, U.S. Census Bureau Special Report
• Tennessee (2002 State New Economy Index, Progressive Policy Institute)
• Tennessee Facts at a Glance (Education Week)
• Tennessee Department of Health
• "Tennessee," Children at Risk: State Trends, 1990-2000 (Annie E. Casey Foundation)
• Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth
• United Way State of Caring Index:
  A Summary Measure of Americans' Capacity to Care for One Another
• Tennessee (United Way State of Caring Index)

K-12 Education in Tennessee

• MetLife Survey of the American Teacher
• "Tennessee," Children at Risk: State Trends, 1990-2000 (Annie E. Casey Foundation)
• Tennessee Facts at a Glance (Education Week)
• Tennessee School Report Card (Nashville Tennessean newspaper)
• StateStandards.com: State Educational Standards Coupled to Lesson Plans and Resources
• From Classrooms to Cell Blocks: A National Perspective (Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice)
• The Condition of Education 2002 (National Center for Education Statistics)
• Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy (University of Washington)
• National Center for Education Statistics (U.S. Department of Education)
• Statistics and Reports (Tennessee Department of Education)
• Report Card 2000 (Tennessee Department of Education)
• Who Should Teach? Quality Counts 2000 (Education Week)
• Education in Tennessee (Official State of Tennessee site)
• Tennessee Department of Education
• Statistics and Reports (Tennessee Department of Education)
• Tennessee Facts at a Glance (Education Week)
• Report Card 2000 (Tennessee Department of Education)
• Office of Teacher Licensing (Tennessee Department of Education)
• Earning a Tennessee Teacher License (Tennessee Department of Education)

Higher Education in Tennessee

• The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings
  July 2002, U.S. Census Bureau Special Report
• Quality, Affordability, and Access: Americans Speak on Higher Education, June 2003 (ETS)
• College Affordability in Jeopardy: A Special Supplement to National Crosstalk
  (National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education)
• At What Cost? The Price That Working Students Pay for a College Education
  (The State PIRGs' Higher Education Project)
• Higher Education Resource Hub
• Who Should We Help? The Negative Social Consequences of Merit Scholarships (Civil Rights Project, Harvard University)
• 2000 TBR Annual Report Card(s)
• Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC)
• Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR)
• Defining Our Future report, Tennessee Board of Regents, December 2001
• Faculty Sub-Council Response to Defining Our Future report
• University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK)
• University of Tennessee System
• Tennessee Independent College and Universities

Higher Education in the United States of America

• Quality, Affordability, and Access: Americans Speak on Higher Education, June 2003 (ETS)
• The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings
  July 2002, U.S. Census Bureau Special Report
• Shaping the Future: The Economic Impact of Public Universities (Adobe .pdf format)
  (National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges)
• College Costs (American Council on Education)
  (includes link to Report of the National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education,
  January 21, 1998)
• College Affordability in Jeopardy: A Special Supplement to National Crosstalk
  (National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education)
• Who Should We Help? The Negative Social Consequences of Merit Scholarships (Civil Rights Project, Harvard University)
• Higher Education Resource Hub
• Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education
  (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching)
• National Center for Education Statistics (U.S. Department of Education)
• Grapevine: A National Database of Tax Support for Higher Education
  (Center for Higher Education and Educational Finance, Illinois State University)
• Measuring Up 2000: The State-By-State Report Card on Higher Education
  (National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education)
• Council for Higher Education Accreditation (Washington, D.C.)
• Council for Higher Education Accreditation Directories
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education (Washington, D.C.)
• International Archive of Education Data (National Center for Education Statistics)
• Electronic Catalog for National Center for Education Statistics (U.S. Department of Education)
• Digest of Education Statistics, 2000 (National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)

A Regional Perspective:
Economic Development and Education in the South

• U.S. States and Territories (Law Library of Congress)
• Uncle Sam's Reference Book: City and County Data Book (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Public Campaign: Clean Money, Clean Elections
• The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings
  July 2002, U.S. Census Bureau Special Report
• Study on Persistent Poverty in the South (Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia)
• Tennessee (2002 State New Economy Index, Progressive Policy Institute)
• State Tax Systems Are Becoming Increasingly Inequitable
  (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Despite Past Boom Times, Income Gaps Have Widened in 45 States Over the Past Twenty Years (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Income Inequality Has Increased in Tennessee Since the 1970s
  (Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends, April 2002, Economic Policy Institute/Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report (Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Tennessee (The Way We Tax, Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, second edition, January 2003
  (Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy)
• Tennessee Taxes Hit Poor and Middle Class Far Harder Than the Wealthy, January 2003
  (Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
• State Finance Data (Tax Foundation)
• Center for Business and Economic Research Publications (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
• Tennessee Statistical Abstract, 2000
  Center for Business and Economic Research (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
• Economic Profiles of the 50 U.S. States and the District of Columbia
  (Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School)
• Children at Risk: State Trends, 1990-2000 (Annie E. Casey Foundation)
• State Info (Education Week)
• Who Will Stay and Who Will Leave? (Southern Growth Policies Board)
• Southern Growth Policies Board (Research Triangle Park, NC)
• Southern Regional Education Board
• Fact Book on Higher Education 2001
  (Southern Regional Education Board)
• Tennessee Featured Facts
  (SREB Fact Book on Higher Education)
  [.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]
• Faculty Salaries in Colleges and Universities: Where Do SREB States Stand? (Southern Regional Education Board)

A National Perspective:
Tennessee Compared with the U.S. as a Whole

• U.S. States and Territories (Law Library of Congress)
• Uncle Sam's Reference Book: City and County Data Book (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Public Campaign: Clean Money, Clean Elections
• The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings
  July 2002, U.S. Census Bureau Special Report
• Tennessee (2002 State New Economy Index, Progressive Policy Institute)
• State Tax Systems Are Becoming Increasingly Inequitable
  (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Despite Past Boom Times, Income Gaps Have Widened in 45 States Over the Past Twenty Years (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Income Inequality Has Increased in Tennessee Since the 1970s
  (Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends, April 2002, Economic Policy Institute/Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report (Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Tennessee (The Way We Tax, Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Comparing the Total Tax Burden in Each State to Just the State/Local Tax Burden, 2002 (Tax Foundation)
• Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, second edition, January 2003
  (Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy)
• Tennessee Taxes Hit Poor and Middle Class Far Harder Than the Wealthy, January 2003
  (Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
• Study on Persistent Poverty in the South (Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia)
• State Finance Data (Tax Foundation)
• Statistical Abstract of the United States (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Tennessee Statistical Abstract, 2000
  (Center for Business and Economic Research, University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
• Government & Politics (Chronicle of Higher Education)
• The Pew Center on the States
• U.S. States and Territories (Law Library of Congress)
• Economic Profiles of the 50 U.S. States and the District of Columbia
  (Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School)
• The 50 States Project (Center for Public Integrity)
• United States Government--States (Policy.com)
• Public Campaign: Clean Money, Clean Elections
• Governing: The Magazine of States and Localities
• Grading the States 2001: A Management Report Card
  (Government Performance Project)
• The Condition of Education 2002 (National Center for Education Statistics)
• State Info (Education Week)
• Quality, Affordability, and Access: Americans Speak on Higher Education, June 2003 (ETS)
• Higher Education Resource Hub
• Measuring Up 2000: The State-By-State Report Card on Higher Education
  (National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education)
• College Affordability in Jeopardy: A Special Supplement to National Crosstalk
  (National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education)
• State Fiscal Outlooks Since 1998
  (National Conference of State Legislatures)
• Children at Risk: State Trends, 1990-2000 (Annie E. Casey Foundation)

Is It Time for Tax Reform in Tennessee?

• Tennessee (Stateline.org: Your Source for State News)
• Taxes/Budget (stateline.org)
• State Tax Collection Data by State (U.S. Census Bureau)
• State and Local Government Finances and Employment
  Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2001 (U.S. Census Bureau)
• The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings
  July 2002, U.S. Census Bureau Special Report
• Tennessee (2002 State New Economy Index, Progressive Policy Institute)
• State Tax Systems Are Becoming Increasingly Inequitable
  (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Despite Past Boom Times, Income Gaps Have Widened in 45 States Over the Past Twenty Years (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Income Inequality Has Increased in Tennessee Since the 1970s
  (Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends, April 2002, Economic Policy Institute/Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report (Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Tennessee (The Way We Tax, Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, second edition, January 2003
  (Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy)
• Tennessee Taxes Hit Poor and Middle Class Far Harder Than the Wealthy, January 2003
  (Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
• Comparing the Total Tax Burden in Each State to Just the State/Local Tax Burden, 2002 (Tax Foundation)
• Study on Persistent Poverty in the South (Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia)
• State Finance Data (Tax Foundation)
• Aggregate sale taxes rates by state (Sales Tax Clearinghouse)
• Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, second edition, January 2003
  (Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy)
• Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States
  (Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy)
• Who Should We Help? The Negative Social Consequences of Merit Scholarships (Civil Rights Project, Harvard University)
• At What Cost? The Price That Working Students Pay for a College Education
  (The State PIRGs' Higher Education Project)
• Higher Education Resource Hub
• 2003 Legislative Update (Tennessee Conference of AAUP)
• Tennesseans for Fair Taxation
• Public Policy Forum (TTU American Association of University Professors)
• Works on Personal Finance

State and Local Government in Tennessee

• State Government: Tennessee (GovEngine.com)
• Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
  (Tennessee Historical Society and University of Tennessee Press)
• Tennessee newspapers (NewsLink)
• Tennessee TV stations (NewsLink)
• Tennessee radio stations (NewsLink)
• U.S. States and Territories (Law Library of Congress)
• Public Campaign: Clean Money, Clean Elections
• State Government Finance Data, by State (U.S. Census Bureau)
• State Info (Education Week)
• States News (Council of State Government)
• Tennessee [National Information Infrastructure] Inventory Project (states.org)
• Tennessee information (The Pew Center on the States)
• Tennessee State Government Officials (Policy.com)
• State Net
• National Governors Association
• National Conference of State Legislatures
• Tennessee (Law Library of Congress)
• Tennessee General Assembly
• TennesseePolitics (NewSource Business Intelligence)
• Tennessee Labor Links
• Tennessee Municipal League (official site)
• International City/County Management Association
• National Association of Counties

What Can We Do?:
Citizenship, Rights and Responsibilities

• David Bollier, "Reclaiming the Commons: why we need to protect our republic resources from private encroachment," Boston Review 27 (Summer 2002)
• Public Campaign: Clean Money, Clean Elections
• State Tax Systems Are Becoming Increasingly Inequitable
  (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Despite Past Boom Times, Income Gaps Have Widened in 45 States Over the Past Twenty Years (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Income Inequality Has Increased in Tennessee Since the 1970s
  (Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends, April 2002, Economic Policy Institute/Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report (Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Tennessee (The Way We Tax, Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, second edition, January 2003
  (Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy)
• Tennessee Taxes Hit Poor and Middle Class Far Harder Than the Wealthy, January 2003
  (Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
• Study on Persistent Poverty in the South (Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia)
• The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings
  July 2002, U.S. Census Bureau Special Report
• Who Should We Help? The Negative Social Consequences of Merit Scholarships (Civil Rights Project, Harvard University)
• Lewis J. Laska, "A History of Personal Income Taxation in Tennessee," Tennessee Historical Quarterly 60 (Winter 2001): 220-243.
• State Budget 2002 (Nashville Tennessean)
• State Government: Tennessee (GovEngine.com)
• Tennessee General Assembly
• 2003 Legislative Update (Tennessee Conference of AAUP)
• e-mail to Senator Charlotte Burks
  or telephone at 1-615-741-3978 (legislative office in Nashville) or 1-800-449-8366 ext. 13978 tool free during working hours
• e-mail to Representative Jere Hargrove (D-House District 42)
  or telephone at 1-615-741-1875 (legislative office) or 1-800-449-8366 ext. 11875 toll free during working hours
• Political Candidates of Tennessee (Aeneas Internet Service)
• Project Vote Smart
• Biographical Directory of United States Congress, 1774-Present (official site)
• Write Your Representative (Official U.S. House of Representatives site)
• Contacting Senators via the Internet (Official U.S. Senate site)
• Voter Information Services
• How to Register to Vote in the United States (registervote.com)
• Registration and Voting Information in the State of Tennessee (registervote.com)
• Division of Elections, Tennessee Department of State
• Tennessee Congressional District Map
• Tennessee General Assembly
• Tennessee General Assembly, Fact Book 1999-00 (.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat Reader program to use)
• 2003 Legislative Update (Tennessee Conference of AAUP)
• Tennessee Legislative Internship Program (Tennessee General Assembly)
• Tennessee Senate District Map
• Tennessee Senate (e-mail links)
• Tennessee House District Map
• Tennessee House of Representatives (e-mail links)
• Tennessee Constitution
• Tennessee Supreme Court
• Tennessee History (TTU History web site)

Public Opinion Polling and Research

• Quality, Affordability, and Access: Americans Speak on Higher Education, June 2003 (ETS)
• Middle Tennessee Poll
  (Office of Communication Research, Middle Tennessee State University)
• The Pew Research Center for The People and The Press
• National Council on Public Polls
• Gallup Opinion Polls on line
• Gallup Research Center (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln)
• Ipsos Reid: Global Marketing Research and Public Opinion
• Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc.
• National Opinion Research Center
• PollingReport.com
• Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (Univ. of Connecticut)
• Zogby International
   

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