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Each Taxpayer's Share: $689,000
New: Financial State of the States 2018
Click here to read Truth in Accounting's newest 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.
Underlying government units report
TIA's new analysis of the 10 most populous U.S. cities and their largest local government units shows you're on the hook for more debt than you think.
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.
Interview of Sheila Weinberg
September 20, 2018
The Rick Jensen Show, WDEL 101.7FM
Intro includes “… She’s deep into the dark, dark arts of government accounting.”
Feds no help to student debt
September 19, 2018
The American Spectator
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a government plan designed to help Americans is actually making their lives worse.
BGA: Candidates, where’s the discussion about our big debt problems?
September 18, 2018
The State Journal-Register
Imagine you’re nearing the end of your life now and it’s time to let your children and grandkids know what you’re leaving them.
The road to lousy infrastructure investments is paved with good intentions
September 24, 2018
Quartz
There may be only one policy issue that all Americans can agree on: the country needs an infrastructure revamp. Bridges and roads are “crumbling,” the water is dirty, and airports are terrible. Every politician promises to fix it, but they never do.
Trillion dollar deficits are nearly here. Thanks, Republicans!
September 24, 2018
Reason
The Congressional Budget Office projected in April that the federal budget deficit would hit $804 billion this year, and would top $1 trillion by 2020, two years earlier than previously projected.
Report of the Independent Financial Commission of Inquiry
September 24, 2018
Ontario (“Ontario’s Official News Source”)
On July 17, Ontario's Government for the People created an Independent Financial Commission of Inquiry into Ontario's past spending and accounting practices.
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