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Each Taxpayer's Share: $689,000
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Have a sneak peek at this year's Financial State of the States report.
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 Cities 2016
TIA analyzes the fiscal health of the most populous U.S. cities. View our annual report HERE.
State Data Lab
Compare all 50 states and the 75 most populous cities using more than 300 unique data variables.
The Federal Project
Our Federal Project explores various aspects of government financial reporting, and will examine a different theme each month for the next year.
Hard truths about Social Security shortfall
June 18, 2018
Chicago Tribune
We can't repay our debt.
Illinois has bigger problems than Chicago
June 18, 2018
American Institute for Economic Research
Taking a page out of secessionist movements, State Representative Reggie Phillips (R-Charleston) has introduced a bill to remove Chicago from Illinois and turn it into "the 51st state of the United States of America."
Truth in Accounting
June 15, 2018
University of Massachusetts-Amherst School of Public Policy
Ghida El-Banna spent summer 2017 as an intern at Truth in Accounting, a nonprofit in Chicago, IL, that produces work “encouraging public entities to produce financial reports that are comprehensive, clear, and transparent; and informing the public of the importance of truthful accounting”.
The pension train has no seatbelts
June 18, 2018
Mauldin Economics
In describing various economic train wrecks these last few weeks, I may have given the wrong impression about trains.
Avoid a depression: Fix Social Security, Medicare
June 18, 2018
The MetroWest Daily News (Massachusetts)
When we’re old and sick and poor, we might be forced to keep warm by burning all the government reports that we ignored, warning us that Social Security and Medicare are running out of money; the latest such report was issued last week.
The public needs a better understanding of public sector debt
June 18, 2018
International Federation of Accountants
Over the past century, many governments have become increasingly dependent on borrowing to finance public spending.
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