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Each Taxpayer's Share: $689,000
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.
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 state reports now available!
Have a sneak peek at this year's Financial State of the States report.
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.
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.
Striking Chicago hotel workers spend fifth day on picket lines
September 17, 2018
WPXN 104.9 FM (Illinois)
The U.S. military says human remains found decades ago on a Pacific island have been identified as those of a U.S. Marine from northwestern Indiana who died in a World War II battle against Japanese forces.
Most US states lack reserves to weather next recession: S&P
September 19, 2018
Reuters
While U.S. states’ financial health has strengthened in 2018 compared with last year, fewer than half have enough financial reserves to weather the first year of a moderate recession, according to an S&P Global Ratings report on Monday.
Who bought the $1.47 trillion of new US national debt over the past 12 months?
September 19, 2018
Wolf Street
Foreign private-sector investors and “foreign official” investors – central banks, governments, etc. – whittled down their holdings of US Treasury Securities by $21 billion at the end of July, compared to a year ago, to $6.25 trillion, according to the Treasury Department’s TIC data released Tuesday afternoon.
Social return accounting: new method to help governments pick the right policy
September 13, 2018
The Mandarin (Australia)
Sydney academics have developed a new method of “social return accounting” that expands on previous ways of estimating the real outcomes of government spending proposals.
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