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State and Local Government Deficits Soar. Are Others Following Detroit's Footsteps?

August 9, 2013, Tracy Gordon

Economic Growth Is the Only Fix For Detroit's Pension Blues

July 31, 2013, Tracy Gordon

The Retirement Surprise In Detroit's Bankruptcy

July 25, 2013, Robert C. Pozen

State Budget Transparency: A Look Behind the Numbers

June 18, 2013, Tracy Gordon

Are Public Pensions Keeping Up with the Times?

June 12, 2013, Richard W. Johnson, Matthew M. Chingos and Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst

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Building on Recent Advances in Evidence-Based Policymaking

April 17, 2013, Jeffrey B. Liebman

What the Stockton Municipal Bankruptcy Means, And Doesn't

April 2, 2013, Tracy Gordon

Do Budget Commitments to the Old Shortchange the Young?

March 26, 2013, Gary Burtless

Funding Transportation Infrastructure with User Fees

February 26, 2013, Jack Basso and Tyler Duvall

The Benefits of a "Fix it First" Approach to America’s Ailing Infrastructure

February 14, 2013, Adam Looney

The Downside of States as Laboratories for Tax Reform

February 5, 2013, Tracy Gordon

State and Local Budgets and the Great Recession

December 2012, Tracy Gordon

Out of the Hole and Over the Cliff? State and Local Budgets in 2012 and Beyond

December 21, 2012, Tracy Gordon

High-Quality Assessments Face Political Hurdles

December 13, 2012, Matthew M. Chingos

Super Storm Sandy Recovery: The Case For Disaster Bonds

December 10, 2012, Robert Puentes and Patrick Sabol

Strength in Numbers: State Spending on K-12 Assessment Systems

November 29, 2012, Matthew M. Chingos

Strengthen Federalism: Establish a National PPP Unit to Support Bottom-Up Infrastructure Investment

November 13, 2012, Robert Puentes

Strengthen Federalism: Enact Legislation Supporting Residential Property Assessed Clean Energy Financing

November 13, 2012, Devashree Saha

Storm Barriers for New York City are Worth the Investment

November 1, 2012

The Big Infrastructure Question Posed by Sandy

October 31, 2012, Robert Puentes

State and Federal Disaster Relief: Expect the Best But Prepare for the Worst?

October 30, 2012, Tracy Gordon

We're now having that frank public conversation about what do we want from government and how much do we want to pay for it.

October 28, 2012, Tracy Gordon, CNN

Charting Maine's Future: Delivering the Next Economy in Maine

October 23, 2012, Bruce Katz

Pension Legacy Costs and Local Government Finances

October 2012, Richard F. Dye and Tracy Gordon

Banking on the States for Clean Energy Innovation

September 12, 2012, Mark Muro and Ken Berlin