Alaska became suddenly and surprisingly rich in the early 1980s, with oil revenues from Prudhoe Bay paying for almost all state operations, picking up some of the costs of local government, creating a huge state savings account, paying all Alaskans annual cash dividends, and eliminating the need for state personal income taxes. The smaller…

The ability of California to provide quality education for its youth depends both on the state's capacity to fund K-12 education and on how the education dollars are used to provide educational services after they are allocated. This report examines how California's federal, state, and local education dollars are spent after they are allocated to…