This detailed analysis summarizes policy proposals and spending recommendations of particular relevance to low-income and modest-income Rhode Islanders and the advancement of their economic opportunity and included in the Governor's proposed FY2026 budget.
The Economic Progress Institute considers the budget in its entirety. This means asking whether the whole budget — in its individual proposals and overall — would likely improve the fiscal health of the state and its residents, particularly the state's low- and modest-income residents? Does it include and fund initiatives that would improve opportunity, or at the very least, prevent those with the fewest resources from falling farther behind?