“We Will Build the Information Superhighway”
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That’s what lobbyists for the telecommunication companies promised in the mid-1990s, in the run up to the Telecommunications Act...
Author: Larry Littlefield
Hey Woodstock Generation: These are Your Presidential Candidates!
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Who will you be voting against this November? That’s really what it comes down to, doesn’t it? The fact...
Public School Finance in the Bloomberg Years: A Detailed, Comprehensive Analysis for NYC and Elsewhere
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From FY 2002, the last NYC budget before Mike Bloomberg became Mayor, to FY 2014, the last budget of...
Census Education Finance Data for FY 2014 (Compared with FY 2002)
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The Census Bureau’s annual education finance data was released for FY 2014 on Friday June 11. The data shows...
America’s Debts: This Is Really, Really, Really Nauseating
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I don’t usually comment on other people’s reporting, but I couldn’t let a Bloomberg News report of a 1970s...
Generational Equity and The 25 Percent
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Here is food for thought. In 1978 I earned the minimum wage: $2.65 per hour. Adjusted for inflation that...
Ten Years A Blogger and a One Man Think Tank
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Ten years ago today I up loaded my first post to the group blog Room Eight, after having been...
New York City’s FY 2017 Budget Proposal: More for Those Who Have More Leaves Less for Those Who Have Less
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As noted in my prior post, the current New York City budget documents are being presented in a way...
New York City’s FY 2017 Budget Proposal: Change from the Recent Past
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One of Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s best innovations, from a truth telling point of view, was the introduction of a...
State and Local Government Employment in 2002 and 2014: Bureaucracy, Judicial and Legal, and Public Health Employment and Payroll
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I will once again end a tabulation of state and local government data from the U.S. Census Bureau with...