How widespread are municipal bankruptcies? Are municipal defaults increasing? What about state and local pension funding?

This report presents Michigan local government leaders’ evaluations of their jurisdictions’ employee pay and fringe benefit rates.

Quiz: Do you lack financial preparation for predictable natural disasters?

This short piece was developed for a graduate seminar that I teach on public finance and budgeting, and I thought it would be of interest to other ICMA members

This article discusses the practices of local governments that adopt multiyear budgets—why they do so and how these budgets work.