Personal Budgeting in the News

• Budgeting IntroductionTimes Education Supplement5 hours ago

  A powerpoint & starter activity to help studetns understand the basics of budgeting. One activity is 'borrowed' from Lord Sutch - get students to plan a wedding budget (see his post on tutor2u for more info).

• Bryant announces draft for performance based budgeting billThe Meridian Star9 hours ago

  A newly drafted bill that calls for more performance based budgeting could eventually save state taxpayers about $250 million a year, according to some lawmakers.

• Bryant pushes new budgeting methodThe Biloxi Sun Herald9 hours ago

  GULFPORT — Under a proposal touted by Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant to reform the state’s budget process, the Legislative Budget Office and the Performance Evaluation and Expenditure and Review committee would be combined and charged with making sure state programs are productive, or else their budgets would suffer.

• Pocketsmith hailed as budgeting bliss3news19 hours ago

  Three young Dunedin entrepreneurs have designed a way to make managing your money fun, and its already a hit around the globe.

• Tight times aheadArkansas News Bureau1 second ago

  State officials are predicting a 2 percent rise in state revenues in the next fiscal year, beginning July 1. That pretty much guarantees status quo budgeting, at best, in the legislature’s first fiscal session in January. But it would be almost a windfall compared with the recent experience of drops in revenue year to year.

• Libraries request more fundingWestby Times1 second ago

  With less state funding budgeted for area libraries, both Westby Bekkum Memorial Library and Coon Valley Knutson Memorial Library asked for additional support from their local governments during the recent budgeting process.

• Bryant Backs 'Performance Budgeting'WTOK-TV Meridian13 hours ago

  Mississippi Lieutenant Governor Phil Bryant came to Meridian to talk about The Commission for a New Mississippi.

• A stinky stockyard full of sacred cowsJournal Inquirer1 second ago

  Given state government's financial collapse, state budget director Robert L. Genuario says Connecticut no longer can afford "sacred cows" in public budgeting. Of course Genuario means only to nick a little more at the margins of state spending, like state grants to municipalities.