7/8/2025 8:00:00 AM

Financial Transparency Score 2025

6/20/2025 9:04:00 AM

Response to Social Security's Go-Broke Date

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Congress Created the Oversight System. It's Time to Oversee It.

6/6/2025 4:22:00 PM

The Federal Government's Books Are Broken, and the GAO Isn't Fixing Them

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Truth in Accounting explains what the Moody's downgrade really means for taxpayers

5/23/2025 9:32:00 AM

Credit Downgraded, Debt Upgraded: The Federal Government's Financial Crisis

5/12/2025 12:53:00 PM

Common Sense And Deficit Spending

5/12/2025 12:52:00 PM

Dallas's $8.2B Debt Demands Ethical Leaders, Not West's Financial Fumbles

5/12/2025 12:46:00 PM

Falling revenue, soaring costs threaten Pittsburgh's financial future

5/9/2025 1:59:00 PM

The Peterson Foundation's Solutions Initiative 2024 Falls Short of Truthful Accounting

5/2/2025 11:01:00 AM

The Federal Government's 2024 Annual Financial Report: What You Need to Know

4/25/2025 11:55:00 AM

Potential Concerns Regarding SEC Compliance: Analysis of Governor J.B. Pritzker's Pension Funding Disclosures

4/24/2025 2:30:00 PM

The CPA Education Gap: Why Future Accountants Aren't Learning How Government Really Works

4/24/2025 2:01:00 PM

Budgeting Gimmicks and Misleading Financial Practices

4/24/2025 1:41:00 PM

Why Government Accounting Reform Is Foundational to Economic Policy

4/14/2025 8:36:00 PM

Financial State of the Union 2025

4/7/2025 8:54:00 PM

Truth in Accounting's Sheila Weinberg on Illinois' pension mess and whether budgets are 'balanced'

4/2/2025 12:02:00 PM

Have Gov. Pritzker's budgets been balanced?

3/28/2025 12:00:00 PM

A Leader Who Puts Principle Over Pay for an Essential Cause

3/25/2025 1:06:00 PM

Chicago leaders hand $40K in debt to each taxpayer, second-worst in U.S.

3/17/2025 8:34:00 PM

Our Fiscal Burden is Far Greater than Generally Reported

3/17/2025 8:29:00 PM

70 Years of Mismanagement: Untangling the Mess that is the U.S. Federal Government and the Need for Transparency

3/17/2025 8:29:00 PM

The Need for Radical U.S. Federal Government ReformNow!!!!!

3/17/2025 3:35:00 PM

Jacksonville Bold for 3.12.25: That DOGE won't hunt

3/17/2025 3:33:00 PM

Texas Cities Racking Up Huge Amounts of Debt

3/17/2025 3:30:00 PM

Waste of the Day: America's Largest Cities Can't Pay Their Bills

3/10/2025 7:21:00 PM

Jacksonville Bold for 3.5.25: Infra-swag

3/10/2025 7:20:00 PM

Can We Handle the Truth . . . of Our Cities' Financial Status?

3/10/2025 7:16:00 PM

Analysis: Five of Texas' largest cities are in the red again

3/7/2025 3:49:00 PM

Letter to the American People: DOGE Should Support Improving Current Federal Financial Reporting

3/5/2025 2:40:00 PM

FDTA: The Benefits and Hurdles

3/3/2025 8:43:00 PM

The Shambles of St. Louis

3/3/2025 8:39:00 PM

Tennessee's Two Largest Cities Have a Financial Deficit: Report

3/3/2025 8:38:00 PM

Report: Tampa's financial condition is fourth best nationally

2/27/2025 8:28:00 AM

Financial State of the Cities 2025

1/28/2025 2:37:00 PM

California Wildfires's Position

1/27/2025 9:35:00 AM

Group warns U.S. financial liabilities are not being truthfully reported

1/27/2025 9:34:00 AM

Illinois extremely late on its 2023 financial report. Explanation needed.

1/25/2025 3:22:00 AM

California Wildfires: TIA's Position

1/23/2025 5:47:00 PM

DOGE, the Debt Limit, and Dismantling the U.S. Fiscal Time Bomb

1/21/2025 8:03:00 AM

A New Year: Resolve to be Financially Empowered

1/21/2025 8:01:00 AM

Why Public-Owned Bank Beats Wall Street

1/21/2025 7:58:00 AM

The state of Utah 2024: National rankings and awards

1/21/2025 7:56:00 AM

Letter to the editor: We should hold politicians accountable

1/15/2025 3:17:00 PM

Petition: Ensure Comprehensive Financial Reporting of Federal Spending

1/13/2025 11:18:00 AM

EARLY RELEASE: Financial State of Chicago

1/10/2025 10:35:00 PM

Petition: Require Full Accrual Accounting in Federal Financial Reporting and Budgeting

1/6/2025 12:23:00 PM

What's the Matter With Chicago?

12/16/2024 11:07:00 AM

DA Stephen A. Zappala sues county, retirement board over underfunded pension fund

12/9/2024 11:33:00 AM

North Dakota, Minnesota tops in nation for 'taxpayer truth in accounting'

12/9/2024 11:31:00 AM

HALF of all U.S. states going BANKRUPT, financial report finds

12/9/2024 11:24:00 AM

Reports agree: Louisiana faces unfunded liabilities in pension system

12/6/2024 1:09:00 PM

The SEC's job is about protecting ALL investors!

11/25/2024 11:19:00 AM

Milwaukee pension system has $2.1B net liability

11/11/2024 1:52:00 PM

Chicago Public Schools' financial crisis can again be fixed by state oversight

11/11/2024 1:52:00 PM

Why state governments are tightening their budgets

11/5/2024 9:15:00 AM

Our Fragile Infrastructure: Lessons From Hurricane Helene

11/5/2024 9:14:00 AM

Cato Institute Ranking of Governors: Gavin Newsom Earns a "D" and Tim Walz an "F"

11/5/2024 9:07:00 AM

Why 27 U.S. States Are Going Broke

10/28/2024 9:18:00 AM

Illinois is falling short in ways that can be costly

10/21/2024 2:37:00 PM

Baltimore nonprofits dodge needed scrutiny

10/21/2024 2:35:00 PM

Waste of the Day: States Are $811 Billion In Debt

10/21/2024 2:34:00 PM

Cities Preparing for Life After American Rescue Plan Funding

10/14/2024 11:35:00 AM

Taking a close look at Maryland's Financial Health

10/14/2024 11:28:00 AM

Video: Good Day Maine: Maine's Financial Health Gets a "C"

10/14/2024 11:27:00 AM

Be Skeptical of Claims St. Louis is Running A Surplus

10/7/2024 11:34:00 AM

Report: Georgia's financial picture improves

10/7/2024 11:30:00 AM

2024 Financial State of the States: Illinois gets an 'F' again, ranked third worst 'sinkhole' state

10/7/2024 11:29:00 AM

California's financial state deteriorates as officials slack on making financial data public

10/4/2024 12:09:00 PM

Supporting the Next Generation of Financial Transparency Leaders!

10/2/2024 10:21:00 PM

Financial State of the States 2024

9/26/2024 2:48:00 PM

Pro forma statements for state and local government?

9/16/2024 8:50:00 AM

Despite upbeat projections, Pittsburgh's finances on downward spiral

9/13/2024 11:00:00 AM

The Standard Setters for State and Local Government Accounting

9/12/2024 2:45:00 PM

The Rule-Makers for State and Local Government Accounting

9/3/2024 7:54:00 PM

Bad Definitions Distort Social Security: The Truth Behind the Social Security Trust Fund

9/3/2024 11:43:00 AM

Outdated Pensions Hold Our Cities Back

9/3/2024 11:40:00 AM

Cash-Strapped San Francisco Waves Goodbye to Elon Musk's X

8/26/2024 11:20:00 AM

Jeanne Ives: 'There's no place like Chicago!'

8/19/2024 10:40:00 AM

The Ben Shapiro Show: Commie-la Harris' Soviet-Style JOY!

8/12/2024 12:40:00 PM

Federal government borrowed $5 billion a day in fiscal year 2024

8/12/2024 12:37:00 PM

New Jersey Rated One of the Most Fiscally Unsound States in America

8/5/2024 1:59:00 PM

The scariest website you'll ever see

8/5/2024 1:57:00 PM

Sharf: Collective bargaining ballot measure a bad deal for Denver

8/5/2024 1:55:00 PM

Chicago schools' budget gap bigger than reported, but city, state pours in more money

7/30/2024 8:16:00 PM

Financial State of City of Missoula and Missoula County

7/29/2024 11:59:00 AM

Government Accounting versus Corporate Accounting

7/29/2024 10:29:00 AM

Reflections from a conference host

7/26/2024 1:10:00 PM

We Need More Accountants

7/22/2024 5:47:00 PM

Mayor dodges loan questions, says state 'owes' public schools

7/22/2024 5:45:00 PM

Government Debt Varies Widely by State

7/19/2024 11:25:00 AM

Digital Data Standards Support Greater Transparency and Opportunity in the Municipal Bond Markets

7/15/2024 12:54:00 PM

California is late on its own financial health report for the 6th straight year

7/8/2024 5:24:00 PM

Philly Fails to Make Top 20 Best Cities List; Fitch Gives A+ Rating

7/8/2024 5:21:00 PM

Californians Have Little to Show for All That Government Spending

7/8/2024 5:19:00 PM

Lamont, Brokman, Budgets And Budget Busters

7/1/2024 12:52:00 PM

Can Hawaii afford climate change lawsuit settlement?

6/28/2024 8:46:00 PM

Report challenges health of city of Longview finances - but not by standard measures

6/28/2024 10:37:00 AM

Our Mission is to Help: A Rebuttal

6/25/2024 11:17:00 PM

Cothrum: A simple, paint-by-numbers plan to fix City Hall