- Policy Brief: Band-Aid Budget Redux March 30, 2026
- Policy Brief: Comparing the Senate- and House-Passed 2026 Supplemental Operating Budgets March 2, 2026
- Policy Brief: Washington Businesses Paid 50% of State and Local Taxes in 2024 Jan. 28, 2026
- Policy Brief: SJR 8201: Investment Flexibility for Long-Term Care Funds Sept. 29, 2025
- Policy Brief: With New Revenue Package, the Transportation Budget Balances Through 2027–29 July 30, 2025
- Special Report: Historically Large Tax Package Rushed Through at the End of Session July 22, 2025
- Policy Brief: The Band-Aid Budget: $9 Billion in New Taxes and $7 Billion in Savings, But No Lasting Solutions July 17, 2025
- Policy Brief: Comparing Operating Budget Proposals March 27, 2025
- Policy Brief: Legislators Can Close the Budget Shortfall Without Raising Taxes March 10, 2025
- Policy Brief: The Business Tax Burden in Washington is Above the National Average Nov. 4, 2024
- Policy Brief: Anatomy of the Projected State Budget Shortfall Oct. 23, 2024
- Policy Brief: Washington Faces an Estimated $5.1 Billion Shortfall Oct. 21, 2024
- Policy Brief: I-2117: Repealing the Climate Commitment Act Oct. 8, 2024
- Policy Brief: I-2109: Repealing the State Capital Gains Tax Sept. 26, 2024
- Policy Brief: I-2124: Making the State’s Long-Term Care Program Optional Sept. 19, 2024
- Special Report: Where Does All the Money Go: Spending Carbon Emission Allowance Auction Proceeds in the Shadow of I-2117 July 9, 2024
- Policy Brief: The Importance of Constitutionally Protected Reserves: The Case of the WRPTA May 3, 2024
- Policy Brief: The Supplemental Operating Budget Increases Spending 3.1% and Drains the Shadow Reserve Account March 20, 2024
- Policy Brief: Comparing the Senate- and House-Passed Supplemental Operating Budgets Feb. 29, 2024
- Special Report: The Transportation Budget, Transportation Revenues, and Long-Term Funding Challenges Nov. 6, 2023
- Policy Brief: Modest Operating Budget Growth in Inflationary Times July 10, 2023
- Policy Brief: Seattle’s Payroll Expense Tax is Highly Concentrated and Shaping Up to Be a Volatile Revenue Source June 26, 2023
- Policy Brief: Comparing the Senate- and House-Passed Operating Budgets April 10, 2023
- Policy Brief: The State Should Avoid Tapping Reserves While Revenues Are Growing Jan. 9, 2023
- Policy Brief: Washington’s Business Taxes Continue to Exceed National Average Oct. 3, 2022
- Policy Brief: Cash Deficits in the Paid Family and Medical Leave Program Signal Additional Tax Increases Ahead Aug. 22, 2022
- Policy Brief: Historically Large Supplemental Budget Also Sets Aside Significant (But Unprotected) Reserves April 28, 2022
- Policy Brief: Biennial-Sized Spending in a Supplemental Year: Comparing the Senate- and House-Passed Budgets March 4, 2022
- Policy Brief: Minimal Losses to Local Revenues in 2020 Are Largely Offset by Additional Federal Relief Feb. 18, 2022
- Policy Brief: A Surplus of $11.249 Billion: Gov. Inslee Would Increase Spending, but a Sustainable Budget Could Include Tax Reductions Feb. 2, 2022
- Policy Brief: How Should the State Spend Its Substantial Surplus? Dec. 14, 2021
- Policy Brief: Should Washington Be in the Long-Term Care Insurance Business? Oct. 14, 2021
- Economic Profile: The Economic Contribution of Washington State’s Petroleum Refining Industry in 2019 June 2021
- Policy Brief: With No Budget Shortfall to Address, Legislature Spent Heavily and Potentially Created Budget Challenges for the Future June 16, 2021
- Policy Brief: Senate- and House-Passed Operating Budgets Would Needlessly Drain the Rainy Day Fund April 19, 2021
- Policy Brief: State Revenues Are Back to Pre-Pandemic Levels March 22, 2021
- Policy Brief: Washington Does Not Have a Budget Shortfall Feb. 12, 2021
- Policy Brief: Taxing Captive Insurance Jan. 27, 2021
- Policy Brief: Unemployment Insurance Taxes Will Be a Headwind for the State Economy Jan. 14, 2021
- Policy Brief: Washington’s Business Taxes Exceed National Average Jan. 8, 2021
- Economic Profile: Update on the Washington State Convention Center Addition Project Nov. 2, 2020
- Policy Brief: ESJR 8212: A Constitutional Amendment to Treat Long-Term Care Funds the Same as Other, Similar State Funds Oct. 8, 2020
- Special Report: School Funding: Accounting for the Billions Spent in Response to McCleary Oct. 5, 2020
- Policy Brief: Delaying Budget Action Would Deepen the Pain July 24, 2020
- Special Report: State Budgeting in the Great Recession, and Lessons for Today July 1, 2020
- Policy Brief: How Much of the State Budget is “Protected”? May 26, 2020
- Policy Brief: While Acknowledging the Increasingly Negative Economic Outlook, the Legislature Increases Appropriations by 20.5 Percent March 30, 2020
- Policy Brief: House-Passed Budget Would Increase 2019–21 Appropriations by $1.178 billion—21.0 Percent Above 2017–19 March 6, 2020
- Policy Brief: Senate-Passed Budget Would Increase 2019–21 Appropriations by $1.132 billion—20.9 Percent Above 2017–19 March 4, 2020
- Policy Brief: Comparing the 2020 Supplemental Operating Budgets March 3, 2020
- Policy Brief: Washington’s Business Taxes Exceed National Average Feb. 24, 2020
- Policy Brief: Preemptively Overhauling the Workforce Education Investment Surcharge Feb. 4, 2020
- Policy Brief: Gov. Inslee’s 2020 Supplemental Operating Budget Would Tap the Rainy Day Fund Jan. 14, 2020
- Policy Brief: I-976: Reversing Transportation Taxes and Fees Oct. 9, 2019
- Policy Brief: Long-Term Care and Paid Family and Medical Leave: A Tale of Two Payroll Taxes July 12, 2019
- Policy Brief: Despite Substantial Recent Revenue Growth, Legislature Increases Taxes by Over $1 Billion May 22, 2019
- Policy Brief: State Operating Appropriations for 2019–21 Increase by 18.3 Percent, Topping $50 Billion May 16, 2019
- Policy Brief: Legislature Adopts New Taxes to Increase 2019–21 Spending by 18.3 Percent May 8, 2019
- Policy Brief: House- and Senate-Passed Operating Budgets Would Increase Taxes to Pay for Billions in New Policy Spending April 18, 2019
- Policy Brief: Comparing the 2019-21 Operating Budgets April 10, 2019
- Policy Brief: A Capital Gains Tax Would Not Improve Budget Sustainability April 5, 2019
- Policy Brief: Senate Ways and Means Committee Chair’s Proposed Operating Budget Would Increase Spending by $7.5 Billion April 2, 2019
- Policy Brief: House Appropriations Chair’s Proposed Operating Budget Would Increase Spending by $8 Billion March 27, 2019
- Policy Brief: A Tax Expenditure Budget Wouldn’t Improve State Tax Policy March 7, 2019
- Economic Profile: The Economic Contribution of Washington State’s Petroleum Refining Industry in 2017 Feb. 12, 2019
- Policy Brief: Washington Businesses Pay More Than Half of State and Local Taxes Jan. 11, 2019
- Policy Brief: Washington’s Budget Sustainability Requirements Work When Followed Jan. 4, 2019
- Policy Brief: Gov. Inslee Proposes a 22.3 Percent Spending Increase for 2019–21 Jan. 2, 2019
- Policy Brief: Washington Spending Review: Spending Up 44 Percent Since Pre-Recession Peak Dec. 12, 2018
- Policy Brief: Washington Revenue Review: Revenues Are Still Growing Strong, But for How Long? Dec. 7, 2018
- Policy Brief: Initiative 1631: Putting a Price on Carbon Oct. 22, 2018
- Special Report: Manufacturing Jobs Part III: A Costly and Uncertain Regulatory Burden Harms Competitiveness Sept. 5, 2018
- Policy Brief: I-1634: Nipping Local Food Taxes in the Bud Aug. 27, 2018
- Special Report: Getting the Tax Structure Right: It’s Complicated July 12, 2018
- Special Report: Manufacturing Jobs Part II: Education and Workforce Development Strategies to Close the Skills Gap June 13, 2018
- Economic Profile: Banking in Washington April 2018
- Policy Brief: In the 2018 Supplemental, the School Salary Increase is Fully Funded, But the Rainy Day Fund is Shortchanged March 15, 2018
- Policy Brief: The Senate- and House-Passed Supplemental Budgets Would Fully Fund School Salary Increases Feb. 28, 2018
- Policy Brief: Capital Gains Tax is a Not-So-Capital Idea Feb. 15, 2018
- Policy Brief: ERFC Adopts Outlook for Governor’s Supplemental Budget Showing It Balances Over Four Years Jan. 25, 2018
- Special Report: Avista and Hydro One: Lessons from Utility Consolidation in North America Jan. 22, 2018
- Policy Brief: Strong Economy Continues to Boost State Revenue Collections Jan. 15, 2018
- Policy Brief: Legislature Has Used Rainy Day Fund Each Biennium Except 2011–13 Jan. 12, 2018
- Policy Brief: Seattle Should Give Up Its Quixotic Pursuit of an Income Tax Jan. 3, 2018
- Policy Brief: With New Revenue Package, the Transportation Budget Balances Through 2027–29 July 30, 2025
- Special Report: The Transportation Budget, Transportation Revenues, and Long-Term Funding Challenges Nov. 6, 2023
- Policy Brief: I-976: Reversing Transportation Taxes and Fees Oct. 9, 2019
- Transportation Package Makes Critical Investments for Commuters, Economy July 28, 2015
- A Current Law Transportation Budget is Enacted; Will a New Transportation Revenue Package be Next? June 26, 2015
- Senate Transportation Package Would Begin to Address State’s Significant Infrastructure Needs March 26, 2015
- Expanded Commodity Exports Will Create Jobs, Increase Investment September 10, 2013
- Washington Cargo Rides the Rails August 29, 2013
- Export Activity Boosts Washington’s Economy August 20, 2013
- Trade-Dependent Washington Relies on Rail August 15, 2013
- Legislative Congestion Shouldn’t Stall Transportation Fix March 26, 2013
- I-1125: Jamming Transportation Planning September 30, 2011
- Initiative 985 Would Widen 2009-11 General Fund Deficit October 20, 2008
- Infrastructure in Washington: Letting Growth Pay for Growth March 21, 2006
- Initiative Targets Transportation Fees March 15, 2006
- Infrasture in Washington: Connecting to Growth March 14, 2006
- Road Block: Initiative 912 September 30, 2005
- Another Step Forward on Transportation (WashACE) June 21, 2005
- Washington’s Infrastructure Needs: Governance and Decision-Making January 26, 2005
- Washington’s Infrastructure Needs: Innovative Funding, Financing and Management Tools January 26, 2005
- Washington’s Infrastructure Needs: Current Funding and Financing Tools December 22, 2004
- Washington’s Infrastructure Needs: Plans, Funding and Gaps December 22, 2004
- From 9 to 5: Transportation 2003 May 16, 2003
- Initiative 776: $30 Car Tabs and an Attempt to Derail Sound Transit October 25, 2002
- Referendum 51 Gets Us Moving, Safely, Again October 23, 2002
- Pierce Transit Seeks Sales Tax Increase January 28, 2002
- Congestion Inflates Local Cost of Living November 2, 2001
- Ten-year, $17.2 Billion Transportation Plan Proposed by Governor May 4, 2001
- Senate Passes Skinny Transportation Budget March 28, 2001
- Governor’s Transportation Budget Reflects Blue Ribbon Recommendations February 27, 2001
- I-745: Unworkable plan delays real transportation solutions October 16, 2000
- I-745: So Many Roadblocks, So Little Time October 13, 2000
- Initiative 745: Paved with Good Intentions October 12, 2000
- House Republicans and Democrats Offer Competing Transportation Plans March 1, 2000
- Borrowing to Fund Transportation Investments is Prudent February 23, 2000
- City and County Impacts Vary Widely October 1, 1999
- Summing It Up: Upon Reflection, I-695 Still a Bad Idea October 1, 1999
- Transportation and Transit Lose Plenty October 1, 1999
- MVET Off, Property Tax On, and Other Tax Consequences September 30, 1999
- Growth of the MVET September 30, 1999
- Unfinished Business May 13, 1999
- $30 Car Tab Initiative Threatens Highway Improvements, Handcuffs State and Local Governments February 26, 1999
- 1999-2001 Transportation Budget: Referendum 49 Impacts January 29, 1999
- Referendum 49, Again: Tax Relief and Transportation October 2, 1998
- Referendum 49: Tax Relief Plus Transportation Funding June 19, 1998
- Transportation Finance Plan Moves Forward February 6, 1998
- Transportation’s Role in the State Economy March 6, 1997
- Rail Freight Mobility October 23, 1996
- The ABC’s of RTA: Analysis of Benefits and Costs October 15, 1996
- Update on RTA: Costs and Travel Times September 30, 1996
- Regional Transit Again: A Look at the New Plan July 8, 1996
- Commuting a la mode February 16, 1995
- The need for speed February 2, 1995
- RTA impact on congestion February 1, 1995
- RTA: The $6.7 Billion Question February 1995
- Paying for the RTA January 20, 1995
- Council to review RTA Plan January 19, 1995
- Governor’s transportation plan: the cost factor April 13, 1993
- Washington’s Public Ports June 1990
- Package gets transportation improvements rolling May 1990
- Transportation Finance in Washington State November 1989
- Projected Shortage in Road Funds Makes It Likely Gas Tax Issue Will Come Up Again March 4, 1988