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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.
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 Union 2020
Click here to view our report on the nation's fiscal health before the coronavirus pandemic hit.
2020 Financial State of the Cities
Our fourth annual report on the financial condition of the nation's 75 largest cities.
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.
Report: Mississippians owe $10,400 to pay off state’s mounting debts
October 29, 2020
The Sun-Sentinel (Mississippi)
Mississippi is one of 39 states that can’t pay its bills, according to a recently released report and taxpayers owe $10,400 apiece to make the debt whole.
Truth in Accounting: ‘California is unusually delayed in issuing its annual financial report’
October 27, 2020
Southern California Record
The state of California was recently crowned with the Tortoise Award for the slow publication of its Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR).
ITR president: Iowa was ready for COVID-19 fiscal crisis
October 27, 2020
Hawkeye Reporter
Truth in Accounting has released the 11th edition of its Financial State of the States and it ranks Iowa’s financial condition the nation’s 10th best.
Pension bonds are a short-term strategy that carry long-term risk
October 30, 2020
Arnold Ventures
New Jersey has been underfunding its pension plans since 1996. As of last year, the plans had only 59 percent of the assets on hand needed to match projected liabilities, which was one of the worst ratios in the country.
Rescuing state and local governments will pay for itself
October 30, 2020
The Week
How's the U.S. economy doing? The latest news is somewhat better than expected — GDP grew 7.4 percent overall in the third quarter, and is now "only" something like 3.5 percent below where it was before the pandemic struck.
To explain, again, why Richard Murphy is wrong about QE
October 27, 2020
Expunct
Richard Murphy tries to tell us, again, that we don’t really have a growing national debt. Because QE means that government owes money to itself and this nets out and so keep spending boys!
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