financial
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Budgets/TaxesPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Sheila Weinberg: Tracking and Ranking the Financial Outlook of All 50 States
by Jesse Hathaway October 5, 2016Jesse Hathaway talks with Sheila Weinberg, the founder and CEO of Truth in Accounting (TIA), about a new annual report published by the watchdog group tracking and ranking the financial outlook of all 50 states.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Adam Millsap: Ranking the Financial Health of the States
by Jesse Hathaway June 13, 2016In this episode of The Heartland Institute’s weekly Budget & Tax News podcast, managing editor and research fellow Jesse Hathaway talks with Mercatus Center at George Mason University’s State and Local Policy Project scholar Adam Millsap about a new study ranking each US state’s financial health, based on factors such as short- and long-term debt, fiscal obligations, unfunded pensions and entitlement spending.
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The administrators who run Chicago Public Schools, the taxpayers who fund the district and CPS parents have a real mess on their hands. CPS is facing a $500 million budget shortfall for the 2015-16 school year alone. Altogether, the district is over $1 billion in the hole, and the debt CPS is carrying has been labeled “junk” by Fitch Ratings, Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s.