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Author: Larry Littlefield

Sold Out Futures: A State By State Ranking Based on the Census of Governments

Larry Littlefield | June 24, 2015
For nearly 30 years Americans, individually and collectively, have sold the future to live for today. In the private...
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Sold out Futures By State: I’m Working On It

Larry Littlefield | June 23, 2015
The next post will be delayed, but I’m completing a tabulation of which states are the worst and best...
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Bureaucracy: Census of Governments Data

Larry Littlefield | June 14, 2015
This post will complete my series on different government functions based on finance data from the 2012 Census of...
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Parks, Culture, Libraries, Vices and Oddities: Census of Governments Data

Larry Littlefield | June 10, 2015
For twenty years it was the same dance. The Mayor would play the bad guy and propose a budget...
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Infrastructure: Census of Governments Data

Larry Littlefield | June 1, 2015
The United States, based on press reports, is heading for an infrastructure crisis that today’s politicians are desperate to...
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Uniformed Services: Census of Governments Data

Larry Littlefield | May 29, 2015
Over the past 20 years there has been an ongoing debate about the high cost of welfare, social services...
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Aid for the Needy: Census of Government Data

Larry Littlefield | May 25, 2015
It was only a couple of decades ago that aid for the needy, and resentment of that burden by...
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State Government Higher Education Expenditures: Census of Governments Data

Larry Littlefield | May 17, 2015
The news media has reported that more and more students are priced out of college or going deep in...
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Local Government Education Expenditures: 2012 Census of Governments Data

Larry Littlefield | May 10, 2015
Perhaps the most important reason that New York’s state and local tax burden is so high, as discussed here,...
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Overview of State and Local Government Expenditures: Census of Governments Data

Larry Littlefield | April 26, 2015
Services have been cut. In public schools, class sizes have been increased and after school activities curtailed in New...
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