What the MTA Deal Means
|
So I hear Governor Cuomo and Mayor DeBlasio have cut a deal. So how much will Governor Cuomo pay,...
Category: Albany
Schools Are Obsolete: IT and the UFT Have Convinced Me
|
There is, or at least was until recently, an idea out there in America that every child deserves a...
“Documenting The Decline of the City”
|
When you know what I do about state and local government revenues and expenditures (and I’ve worked very hard...
Public Employee Pensions In NY and NJ: 2013 Data (and Commentary on NYC Comptroller Stringer’s Deceptions, Etc.)
|
This is a “give the people what they want” post. After recently completing two analyses of public employee pensions...
It Keeps Getting Tougher for New York’s Young Serfs
|
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,...
Census Bureau Education Finance Data FY 2013
|
Imagine the following on a postcard sent to every taxpayer and public school employee in Syracuse, NY: “In FY...
The Mets Are New York’s Team, According To State and Local Government Finance Data
|
It is too bad that people don’t pay as much attention to state and local government policy, and the...
Sold Out Futures: Public Employee Pensions, Census of Governments Data
|
All across the country, despite an economy that has been officially out of recession for half a decade and...
Sold Out Futures By State: Debt and Capital Construction Investments, Census of Governments Data
|
When people think about America’s debt problem, they generally think about the national debt, which is to say the...
Sold Out Futures: A State By State Ranking Based on the Census of Governments
|
For nearly 30 years Americans, individually and collectively, have sold the future to live for today. In the private...