The Pew Charitable Trusts illuminates states’ fiscal challenges through research, including comprehensive 50-state assessments. In these assessments we rate the states on their performance, highlighting effective approaches and creating pressure for reform. Our team uses its expertise to examine the three key areas of state finances—revenues, expenditures, and borrowing. Our goal is to provide data, analysis, and guidance to help states recover in the short term and maintain fiscal sustainability in the long term.
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State of the States 2010
Pew's annual report on state government is a nonpartisan, analytical look at the Great Recession's effects on policy and politics in the 50 states—including larger trends that have the potential to change state government in lasting ways.
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Beyond California
This 2009 report looked closely at nine states that were particularly affected by the Great Recession: Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin.
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Promises with a Price
Pew's first 50-state analysis of the long-term costs of public sector retirement benefits found that most states had saved enough to cover about 85 percent of their long-term pension costs, but only three percent of the funds needed for promised retiree health care and other non-pension benefits.
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