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Follow the Sources:

Follow the Sources:. From Local to International Level of Public Finance Resources. Basic Reference Concepts. Most of this information is available via the web Federal and state are easiest to locate Follow the taxes…these fund the budgets that will be spent. Local Government Tricks.

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Follow the Sources:

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  1. Follow the Sources: From Local to International Level of Public Finance Resources

  2. Basic Reference Concepts • Most of this information is available via the web • Federal and state are easiest to locate • Follow the taxes…these fund the budgets that will be spent

  3. Local Government Tricks • Using Google terms like city budget summary • 33,400,00 hits (Found 6/8) • Using Google UncleSam • 7,570,000 hits (Found 6/8)with only six duplicates from above • Also terms like city budget proposed--9,210,000 with only one duplicate from above.

  4. State Government Trick • National Conference of State Legislatures (page 10 of bibliography) • Overview • Budget Procedures • Budget Conditions • State Revenues

  5. Federal Tricks • Budget of the U.S. Government by GPO (page 14 of bibliography) • The $$ • U.S. Congressional Budget Office (page 14 of bibliography) • Fiscal Topics

  6. U.S. President. Office of Management and Budget (page 15 of bibliography) • Spending $$ ideal • U.S. Dept. of Treasury. Financial Management Service (page 14 of bibliography) • Actually write the checks

  7. International 192 Number of Independent & Sovereign States of the World number (per CountryWatch –Interesting Facts Section)

  8. International Tricks • U.S. Census Bureau’s Statistical Agencies (page 16 of bibliography) • 185 States • 7 International organizations • Northwestern University Library’s International Documents: Foreign Governments (page 16 of bibliography) • 223 States

  9. Article Tricks • Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) (page 19 of bibliography) • Country name—finance in DE • State—finance in DE • City—State—finance in DE • Country name—fiscal policy in DE • State—fiscal policy in DE • Country name and public finance

  10. More… • ABI/Inform Global (page 19 of bibliography) • OxResearch

  11. Bibliography misses: • Sage Public Administration Abstracts – • Subject Index • Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & financial Management ISSN 1096-3367 • EconLit Index • classification code “H”

  12. Caiden, Naomi. “Budgetary Processes.” Encyclopedia of Government and Politics. 2nd ed. Eds. Mary Hawkes and Maurice Kogan. New York: Routledge, 2004. 827-841.

  13. Other Question Tricks • National Priorities Project (page 10 of bibliography) • “Shows how federal tax and spending impact your community” • Includes the NPP Database that show statistics at zip code, high school, school district, county, state (Lots on military).

  14. Questions • Kelly Janousek • California State University, Long Beach • janousek@csulb.edu • 562-985-7815 • See BRASS page for bibliography

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