Different Measurements Show Different Views of State Poverty The nation received good news from the U.S. Census Bureau reported last week, that real median household income increased by 5.2 percent between 2014 and 2015, while the official poverty rate decreased 1.2...
Cities & States
Featured Conference: Urban Institute and National League of Cities Focus on City Economic and Fiscal Resilience
The Urban Institute and the National League of Cities, with funding from The MacArthur Foundation, are bringing together thought leaders in Washington D.C. on September 8 to discuss city fiscal management in their conference, City Economic and Fiscal Resilience: How...
Fort Collins Colorado Earns Top Pick Status
Fort Collins' Website Gets Residents Where They Want To Go Quickly and Easily MuniNet brings back Top Pick features when it sees a website that is truly noteworthy. The city of Fort Collins deserves recognition for their exemplary city government website. Fort Collins...
How Should We React When State and Local Governments Get More of Our Money?: Dissecting the Upside of Higher State and Local Government Tax Revenues
First Quarter of 2016 Sees Tax Revenues Rise 3.1% Since Same Time Last Year The amount of tax revenues being brought in by state and local governments is important, as it may indicate the direction of the economy through increased economic activity, it may reflect...
U.S. Metro Areas Reflect Improving Employment Environment
Three Out of Four Metros Having Better Employment Performance In June 2016 Than June 2015 The Bureau of Labor Statistics released their June numbers for Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) unemployment and employment metrics. Of the 387 official metro areas in the...
Featured Conference: Brookings/Brandeis/Washington University 5th Annual Municipal Finance Conference
On July 12, 2016, the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings Institution, the Rosenberg Institute of Global Finance at Brandeis International Business School, and Olin Business School at Washington University St. Louis are teaming together to...
How Does Your State’s Economy Rank?
by Bradford Langs CFA The U.S. economic recovery is nearing its seventh anniversary, although this recovery has been deemed modest at best. On the state and local level, outlooks vary and are largely dependent on employment dynamics. The Fed raised rates for the...
New Chicago Survey Takes the Pulse of Resident Views of City
Chicago Resident's Views Both Reinforce and Surprise Earlier this month, the New York Times and the Kaiser Family Foundation conducted a survey of 1,123 Chicago residents aged 18 and over, randomly selected, to gather information of their current views toward their...
Featured Conference: The Chicago Forum on Global Cities
MuniNet's featured conference is the Chicago Forum on Global Cities, being put on by The Financial Times and the Chicago Forum on Global Affairs, June 1-3 2016, in Chicago, IL. Open to public registration, this event will bring together government, non-profit, and...
Texas Transportation Commission Issues $615 Million in Highway Improvement Bonds
Featured Municipal Bond in the Market, Week of 04/18/2016 The Texas Transportation Commission is scheduled to issue a $615 million bond, backed by the full faith and credit of the State of Texas, the week of April 18, 2016. The Commission has issued and preliminary...