{"id":4021,"date":"2012-01-23T14:55:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T21:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=4021"},"modified":"2012-04-18T11:51:06","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T17:51:06","slug":"idaho-center-for-fiscal-policy-launches-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/01\/23\/idaho-center-for-fiscal-policy-launches-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy Launches Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4025\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Mike Ferguson is the Director of the Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/01\/Mike-Ferguson.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4025\" title=\"Mike Ferguson\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/01\/Mike-Ferguson-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/01\/Mike-Ferguson-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/01\/Mike-Ferguson-220x165.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/01\/Mike-Ferguson-138x103.jpg 138w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/01\/Mike-Ferguson.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Molly Messick \/ StateImpact Idaho<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Ferguson is the Director of the Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy unveiled its <a href=\"http:\/\/idahocfp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> today.\u00a0 The center describes itself as a &#8220;non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to providing our state\u2019s citizens and elected officials with fact-based information and analysis to help make informed policy decisions.&#8221;\u00a0 Director Mike Ferguson, who served as Idaho&#8217;s chief economist for more than 25 years, says the website will be a resource for policymakers and the public as they work to understand Idaho&#8217;s budget and tax system.<\/p>\n<p>The site will provide data and analysis through its own reports and by cataloging relevant work from other sources.\u00a0 One of the center&#8217;s early projects will be to compile a history of public finance in Idaho dating back to World War II.\u00a0 The Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy is part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statefiscal.org\/\">State Fiscal Analysis Initiative<\/a>, coordinated by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center on Budget and Policy Priorities<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy unveiled its website today.\u00a0 The center describes itself as a &#8220;non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to providing our state\u2019s citizens and elected officials with fact-based information and analysis to help make informed policy decisions.&#8221;\u00a0 Director Mike Ferguson, who served as Idaho&#8217;s chief economist for more than 25 years, says the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":4025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[156,85],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6723,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions\/6723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}