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Tag: Census of Governments

Sold Out Futures: Public Employee Pensions, Census of Governments Data

Larry Littlefield | June 30, 2015
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

Larry Littlefield | June 26, 2015
When people think about America’s debt problem, they generally think about the national debt, which is to say the...
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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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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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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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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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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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Revenues Other Than Taxes: 2012 Census of Governments Finance Data

Larry Littlefield | April 20, 2015
In FY 2012 the State of New York spent $99.9 billion directly (excluding insurance trust expenditures), including $38.6 billion...
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Taxes: 2012 Census of Governments Finance Data

Larry Littlefield | April 15, 2015
It should be no surprise to anyone that the state and local tax burden in high in New York...
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