Room Eight | Author | Larry Littlefield

Revenues Other Than Taxes: 2012 Census of Governments Finance Data

In FY 2012 the State of New York spent $99.9 billion directly (excluding insurance trust expenditures), including $38.6 billion...

It should be no surprise to anyone that the state and local tax burden in high in New York...

Every five years the U.S. Census Bureau conducts a Census of Governments to record the organization, employment, and finances...

It appears that the UK has it’s equivalent of our Republicans. Fake fiscal conservatives who preach austerity for younger...

The past five years have been an era of austerity in local government employment. In some states, as I...

The Federal Reserve’s Z1 data on American debt (public and private) is out for 2014, http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/current/ and I took...

Two and a half years ago, a study reported that the death rate among non-Hispanic White women age 18...

According to a recently released report, from the “liberal” (as described by Crain’s New York Business) Institute on Taxation...

It has been one of my recurring themes that just two kinds of people have been getting richer in...

I haven’t done this since 2009, so lets take a look and see how federal, state and local government...