Author: Larry Littlefield

When you know what I do about state and local government revenues and expenditures (and I’ve worked very hard...

One of the more positive trends of the past few years has been the acknowledgement by at least some...

This is a “give the people what they want” post. After recently completing two analyses of public employee pensions...

As I noted in this post, https://larrylittlefield.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/census-bureau-education-finance-data-fy-2013/ when I compare per student public school spending with the U.S. average,...

With more people seeking to save money by not having their own cars, more people are having to rent...

Imagine the following on a postcard sent to every taxpayer and public school employee in Syracuse, NY: “In FY...

It is too bad that people don’t pay as much attention to state and local government policy, and the...

Here on Saying the Unsaid in New York. https://larrylittlefield.wordpress.com/the-latest-public-finance-spreadsheets/ The page now includes all the key spreadsheets from the...

All across the country, despite an economy that has been officially out of recession for half a decade and...

When people think about America’s debt problem, they generally think about the national debt, which is to say the...