Introduction: Western States Budget Reports

Introduction: Experience Reports

I love stories. I love hearing them; I love telling them. Stories connect me to ideas in a way that dry recitals of facts and findings never could. Perhaps it’s my love of stories that makes the experience reports track my favorite at conferences. A great experience report is a story: a personal account of what somebody experienced while trying an idea. Of course, there’s more to an experience ...

Congress of the United States Congressional Budget Office

The 2005 United States budget: wasteful expenditures, foregone opportunities.

Congress of the United States Congressional Budget Office

NOTES Unless otherwise indicated, all years referred to in Chapter I are calendar years and all years in Chapter II are fiscal years. "Growth during 1988" or "growth in 1988" means growth from the end of 1987 to the end of 1988 except where otherwise specified. "Growth between 1987 and 1988" means the percentage difference between the annual average levels in 1987 and 1988. Unemployment rates t...

Balanced Budget Rules and Fiscal Policy: Evidence from the States

The persistence of fiscal deficits in many industrial democracies has spawned a vast theoretical literature in political economy on why nations run budget deficits, along with a sharp policy debate concerning fiscal institutions that might reduce these deficits. The debate on fiscal institutions, such as proposed balanced budget amendments for the federal government, involves relatively little ...