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Each Taxpayer's Share: $776,000
NEW Financial State of Chicago
New report on the Financial State of Chicago finds that the city's financial condition worsened by $2 billion compared to the previous year.
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.
City Combined Taxpayer Burden Report 2019
Truth in Accounting's new analysis of the 10 largest U.S. cities that includes their underlying government units.
Financial State of the Union
Read our newest report on the Financial State of the Union, which found that the financial condition of the U.S. government worsened by $4.5 trillion in 2018.
State Data Lab
Compare all 50 states and the 75 most populous cities using more than 300 unique data variables.
How Trump’s new Fed nominee exposed the Soviet Union’s debt
August 23, 2019
The American Conservative
She crunched the numbers and predicted the USSR's downfall. Now can she take on America's red ink?
We owe more than we own
August 22, 2019
Knox VillageSoup (Maine)
Did I read that right? Unwilling to reverse LePage’s tax cuts for wealthy people, Gov. Janet Mills would like us to borrow another $249 million for road repair and other routine expenses. Want to clean up our state parks? OK, let’s sell revenue bonds and stick our grandchildren with the bill. And hope they won’t need better schools or some other “unforeseen” but completely foreseeable public service.
Connecticut slot revenue slides, casino win from gaming terminals down $13.1 million
August 20, 2019
Casino.org
Slot revenue in Connecticut plays a critical role in helping fund the state government. But July marked yet another month where the two tribal casinos reported a drop in win from the terminals compared to the prior year.
Survey says … Lightfoot’s budget will be loaded with hard choices
August 23, 2019
Chicago Tribune
It notes there are vast swaths of government activity that aren’t part of the city’s budget, even if we do hold the mayor accountable for them: the Chicago Public Schools, the Chicago Housing Authority and the CTA, just for starters.
Cut the payroll tax
August 23, 2019
National Review
It would help workers and guard against an economic slowdown.
Just how big is China’s ‘hidden’ debt pile? Beijing orders local cadres to find out
August 21, 2019
South China Morning Post
Lower-level authorities told to assess the scale of back-door financing and come up with ways to tackle it.
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