Sold Out Futures: Public Employee Pensions, Census of Governments Data
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All across the country, despite an economy that has been officially out of recession for half a decade and...
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Sold Out Futures By State: Debt and Capital Construction Investments, Census of Governments Data
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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
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For nearly 30 years Americans, individually and collectively, have sold the future to live for today. In the private...
Bureaucracy: Census of Governments Data
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This post will complete my series on different government functions based on finance data from the 2012 Census of...
Some NYC Public Schools Are Tremendous Success Stories
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Last week I had the honor of speaking to some students at the NYC Public High School for Health...
Infrastructure: Census of Governments Data
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The United States, based on press reports, is heading for an infrastructure crisis that today’s politicians are desperate to...
Uniformed Services: Census of Governments Data
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Over the past 20 years there has been an ongoing debate about the high cost of welfare, social services...
Aid for the Needy: Census of Government Data
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It was only a couple of decades ago that aid for the needy, and resentment of that burden by...
Overview of State and Local Government Expenditures: Census of Governments Data
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Services have been cut. In public schools, class sizes have been increased and after school activities curtailed in New...
Revenues Other Than Taxes: 2012 Census of Governments Finance Data
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In FY 2012 the State of New York spent $99.9 billion directly (excluding insurance trust expenditures), including $38.6 billion...