January 22, 2021
January’s People’s Review: LIVE! featured Wyoming legislative leaders and a U.W. professor of economics talking about Wyoming’s budget and Wyoming’s values. They offered a sobering look at how the state is choosing to address severe revenue shortfalls. One legislator called it “the leanest general fund budget in fifteen years.”
January 18, 2021 ESPC to host lawmakers, economist to talk real-life implications of budget decisions LARAMIE, Wyo — As part of its monthly People’s Review: Live! online series, the nonpartisan Equality State Policy Center will host a panel of state legislative leaders and a prominent Wyoming economist to discuss whether the current state budget adequately aligns with …
The People’s Review: LIVE Does Wyoming’s budget reflect our values? Read More »
January 19, 2021
If it’s Tuesday, January 19, 2021, the 66th Wyoming Legislature must be getting its committee meetings underway. As part of the Gender Lens Project, we wanted to bring the Tampon Tax to your attention.
January 17, 2021 Last week, horrified Americans watched as a violent assault was staged in our nation’s capital, putting the lives of our elected leaders and other public servants in danger, and disrupting a constitutionally mandated meeting of Congress to advance the peaceful transfer of presidential power. Here in Wyoming, we watched the shocking footage …
January 14, 2021
The 66th Wyoming Legislature was sworn in and seated on Tuesday, January 12, 2021. After the pomp, circumstance, ceremony, and an address from Governor Gordon, they voted on rules for the session. Missed the proceedings? You can always watch them on the WY Legislature’s YouTube channel. Find out more about how you can get involved!
January 7, 2021
The 25th Amendment allows for the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to declare a president unfit for office. The vice president then becomes acting president. The section of the amendment specifically addressing this procedure has never been invoked.
How Congress Counts the Electoral Votes is part of ESPC’s How Does the Process Work? Series All eyes have turned to January 6th because that day marks the final step in the process to elect a new President. Here’s a recap of the steps leading up to the inauguration: Spring and Summer 2020: Nomination of Electors. Nov. 3, 2020: Election …
December 23, 2020 Introduction & Context As the 65th Wyoming State Legislature completed its budget session in March of 2020, Americans were just beginning to learn about the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to this unprecedented emergency and its resulting economic fallout, the 116th U.S. Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic …
December 17, 2020 Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’m Chris Merrill, executive director of the Equality State Policy Center. I’m here today not because my organization is convinced this proposed tax increase on wind energy is great policy. We’re not. And there are differing opinions within my coalition about the wisdom of this proposal, and at …
December 18, 2020
The panelists dug into everything from the Wyoming Constitution to the Campbell Decision(s) to the complexity of school funding before spending time on the most important point: that a high quality education for every single child in Wyoming is a core value in our state–and has been since it was a territory.