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Each Taxpayer's Share: $855,000
Financial State of the Cities 2021
Our fifth annual Financial State of the Cities report. This analysis surveys the fiscal health of the 75 most populated US cities 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 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.
Financial State of the Union 2020
Click here to view our report on the nation's fiscal health before the coronavirus pandemic hit.
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.
GASB Public Hearing
April 13, 2021
Governmental Accounting Standards Board
Live hearing(s) today and tomorrow, Sheila Weinberg testifying today at hearing beginning 8:55am CT, Bill Bergman testifying tomorrow at hearing starting at 8:55am. Hearing relates to GASB proposals; Sheila Weinberg’s comment letter is available here, Bill Bergman’s comment letter is available here.
20 Accounting Youtube channels to follow in 2021
April 13, 2021
Feedspot
Includes “Truth in Accounting … About Youtuber: To educate and empower citizens with understandable, reliable, and transparent government financial information. Frequency: 2 videos / week. Since: Jun 2008”
GASB critics want more transparency for public pensions and other retirement benefits
April 12, 2021
The Bond Buyer
By Brian Tumulty, includes “What’s at stake is whether the public is being misled by when a governmental fund is listed in the financial statements as balanced while omitting those long-term debts.
Florida Senate passes bill to move most state workers to DC plan
April 14, 2021
Chief Investment Officer
The Florida state Senate has passed a bill that would eliminate the option for nearly all new state employees to participate in a defined benefit (DB) plan, instead requiring them to join a defined contribution (DC) plan.
Biden budget proposal would dramatically shift US spending priorities
April 14, 2021
Voice of America
The Biden administration released an outline Friday of how it wants the federal government to spend its money in Fiscal 2022, and if anyone was surprised by the contents, they must not have been paying attention.
Janet Yellen, Kristina Georgieva and David Malpass meet in a room
April 7, 2021
Economic Policy Journal
By Robert Wenzel, includes “The joint World Bank, IMF spring meetings are taking place this week. … The conversation was themed, ‘Economic Recovery: Toward a Green, Resilient, and Inclusive Future.”
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