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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.
Who pays the bill? Stimulus dollars and the national debt
January 13, 2021
Colorado Society of CPAs
Truth in Accounting actually had to recalibrate the debt clock on its website to spin faster.
20 accounting YouTube channels to watch in 2021
January 12, 2021
Feedspot
Truth in Accounting … About Youtuber … To educate and empower citizens with understandable, reliable, and transparent government financial information.
Time to end the budget shell game in Springfield
January 11, 2021
Crain’s Chicago Business
My good government reform colleagues at Truth in Accounting, a small Chicago-based non-profit, point to another little-known factor that deserves consideration and remediation
Durbin tells Illinois not to bank on federal funds for state budget
January 21, 2021
The Vedette (Illinois)
The massive federal spending bill Congress passed this week has lots of spending for Illinois, just not to cover the state’s budget deficit.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Springfield, said the $900 billion stimulus bill that passed Congress late Monday has a lot of spending, just not for state and local government budget deficits. But there are a lot of funds for government services like public schools and more.U.S. inflation-protected bond yields hold near record lows
January 21, 2021
The Wall Street Journal
Investors are hanging on to bonds that protect against inflation even as they sell other U.S. government debt, a sign many trust the Federal Reserve to hold interest rates steady even if the economy picks up steam.
Sovereign debt after COVID-19: The wrong view
January 5, 2021
American Institute for Economic Research
World economies were hit hard by Covid-19. The effects have been especially severe in underdeveloped countries, where economies are weaker and healthcare infrastructure is more limited.
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