William Glasgall, Director of State and Local Programs at The Volcker Alliance, discusses what’s important to keep in mind when looking at state budgets. He describes the benefit of ...
There is a general consensus that the next financial crisis will follow the familiar arc of bubble, falling asset values, a run, credit/liquidity crunch, finger-pointing, new regulation, financial ...
The adoptions of fiscal 2017 spending plans in Wyoming and New York this spring mark the opening of the US budget season. Legislators and governors in at least 32 more states ...
There used to be an unwritten—and oft-repeated—understanding among state officials: Higher education expenditures were not going to be part of a statewide performance measurement ...
The more than two dozen U.S. presidential debates and forums to which the global public has been subjected in this election cycle have focused primarily on ideology and ...
Passage of a new law does not guarantee realization of its intent. As Thomas Edison once cautioned, “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Earlier this month, Congress ...
Municipal debt—and what governs issuance, yields, and the consequences of too much borrowing—was the focus of three academic papers on the US and China delivered ...
Historically, there's been an unfortunate and unproductive divide between people who have the same goal of getting government to make more informed and data-driven decisions. On ...
Fans of service delivery are convinced that delivery is truly the core of governance in the 21st century – and that the delivery unit is an organisational mechanism that governments ...
