state budget

The COVID-19 economic downturn was not as bad as feared in South Carolina, so lawmakers suddenly have a lot more money to spend. The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday set aside money for a 2% raise for state employees and a $1,000 raise for all teachers as the panel approved its version of the roughly $10 billion spending plan for the fiscal year that starts on July 1.

This episode of the South Carolina Lede for December 7, 2020, features: a discussion with South Carolina House budget chairman Murrell Smith about how he…

Last Year's Operating Budget to Remain In EffectIt now appears that South Carolina’s state government will operate for the first half of its’ current…

The state legislature will return to Columbia next week to once again consider what to do about next year’s operating budget. Uncertainty about the…

Work is underway at the Statehouse on next year’s $9 Billion state budget which is expected to pump money into reforming the state’s public education…