Public school funding has risen drastically in the last couple of decades, but dollars are increasingly going toward ...
Identifying open enrollment’s effects on families, taxpayers, and districts requires detailed open enrollment data. Improving ...
A K–12 finance agenda aimed at transparency, sustainability, and productivity can help state policymakers navigate the decade ...
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) has released a new artificial intelligence (AI) policy roadmap. Notably, the focus of Sen. Kelly’s “AI for America” plan departs from other federal AI policy proposals ...
State and local governments have $6 trillion in total debt, including over $1 trillion in California
The nation’s state and local governments reported $6 trillion in total debt and nearly $5 trillion in long-term debt at the end of fiscal year 2024, the most recent year with complete data available, ...
A new Reason Foundation analysis of every state in eight key, standardized financial metrics to assess long-term solvency and short-term liquidity finds New Jersey is the most fiscally distressed ...
New York City’s budget has been balanced, boasted Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The city was expecting a $12 billion budget deficit, but Mamdani was able to close it, he claims, without giving up on plans to ...
Even before the recent nationwide calls for police reform, one question that was frequently asked following the conviction of a public official or employee: What will happen to their taxpayer-funded ...
Recent stock market volatility and shaky economic conditions should remind policymakers that there are many scenarios where California’s public pension debt could grow significantly in the years ahead ...
Arizona Public Safety Personnel Retirement System Tier 3 reform is working With over $7 billion in unfunded liabilities remaining to tackle, it would be poor financial stewardship to fundamentally ...
In one of the most sordid scandals to rock the public-sector pension world, the manager of the New York State Common Retirement Fund (NYSCRF) was indicted last month in a “pay-for-play” scheme where ...
The nation’s 50 state governments reported $2.6 trillion in total debt and $1.9 trillion in long-term debt at the end of fiscal year 2024, Reason Foundation’s State and Local Government Finance Report ...
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