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Financial State of the States 2019
Our tenth annual Financial State of the States report, a nationwide analysis of the most recent state government financial information.
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.
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.
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 $3.9 trillion in 2018.
State Data Lab
Choose between more than 650 data variables, including demographic, economic and financial at the federal, state, and city level to create your own chart.
New report shows some states are in terrible financial shape
November 14, 2019
Advocates for Self-Government
A report from Truth in Accounting’s tenth annual Financial State of the States provided a comprehensive breakdown of how all 50 states fare financially. For advocates of fiscal restraint at the state level, such indices are very useful in learning about the fiscal health of their states.
Black & Right
November 13, 2019
AM 560 -- The Answer (Illinois)
Ho hum, Illinois is dragging its feet on gambling yet again
November 12, 2019
Barstool Sports
Pete was in the office yesterday setting up new A/V equipment for us. Ya’ll are about to get a heavier dose of WSD mainlined directly into your blood streams. Hopefully.
Yankee Institute argues for expanded pension options for Connecticut’s public school teachers
November 15, 2019
Hartford Courant
Connecticut’s defined benefit plan for public school teachers is fiscally untenable and limits teachers’ mobility, according to a recent report from the Yankee Institute, a Hartford-based think tank that advocates for a free market, limited government approach to public policy.
MIA defense spending – a crucial cost of war
November 15, 2019
The Hill
The United States government spends upward of $140 million per year to recover and identify the remains of the 81,000 unaccounted-for service members from World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War and the Persian Gulf War. … Because I have spent the last decade studying the MIA accounting effort, I'm often asked whether I think it's worth pouring all this money and effort into recovering and identifying these war dead. … It's not a zero-sum game: these efforts make clear the steep human costs of war.
2019 resolution report: ‘Mind the Gap’
November 15, 2019
Financial Stability Board
This new FSB piece has some ideas relevant to pensions in its insurance discussion. For example, it discusses insurance resolvability when an insurer fails. Pensions are and will be failing in significant ways, and most of these powers do NOT exist in the US for pensions whether public or ERISA or church plans.
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