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Financial State of the States 2020
Our eleventh annual Financial State of the States report. This analysis surveys the fiscal health of the 50 states prior to the coronavirus pandemic.
Bill's Blog
Bill Bergman serves as TIA's Director of Research. He is responsible for managing TIA's federal project and State Data Lab's data base. Bergman spent 13 years as an economist and policy analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Financial State of the Union 2020
Click here to view our report on the nation's fiscal health before the coronavirus pandemic hit.
2020 Financial State of the Cities
Our fourth annual report on the financial condition of the nation's 75 largest cities.
Data-Z (formerly State Data Lab)
Create your own chart with more than 700 data variables, including demographic, economic and financial at the federal, state, and city level.
New Jersey ranks toward bottom of financial transparency report
November 24, 2020
The Center Square
With critiques of timeliness and manner of reporting data, New Jersey ranked toward the bottom of an organization’s recent study of how states across the country report financial data.
California in bottom 10 on financial transparency
November 23, 2020
The Center Square – California
California ranks as the seventh worst state for financial transparency, according to a new study released Tuesday by Truth in Accounting.
The COVID-19 ‘tsunami’ is coming, health officials tell DeWine
November 20, 2020
Mahoning Matters (Ohio)
When discussing her recollection of the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in March, Cheryl Herbert, senior vice president at Ohio Health, said Thursday, ”Public health measures we had in place back then — they worked.”
What can President-elect Joe Biden do for Illinois? Keep John Lausch
November 24, 2020
The Chicago Tribune
Public corruption in Chicago and Illinois is pervasive. For many years, the selection of U.S. attorneys was just one more sweet spoil for the party that captured the White House.
A Fed chair for Treasury
November 24, 2020
The Wall Street Journal
Once upon a time Democrats chose Wall Street or business veterans for the Treasury, with a goal of reassuring the private capital markets. Jack Kennedy chose Wall Streeter Douglas Dillon while Jimmy Carter picked Michael Blumenthal of Bendix.
World Bank urges governments to guarantee private profits
November 24, 2020
Inter Press Service
The World Bank has been leading other multilateral development banks (MDBs) and international financial institutions to press developing country governments to ‘de-risk’ infrastructure and other private, especially foreign investments.
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