Truth in Selections

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Where does your state government or U.S. representative candidate stand? Here are two key questions to ask:

What are you going to do about unfunded liabilities like pensions? What are you going to do about the more than $74 trillion dollar debt that has already been accumulated?

With what money will you use to pay for the programs you're proposing?

You can click here for more--or submit your own questions to us!

News

It's done: Hawaii lawmakers OK’d a record $24 billion biennium budget
5/3/2013
Hawaii’s government is growing, taxpayers are going to foot the bill

New Mexico among slowest to release financial reports
5/3/2013
NM took 356 days to release their 10-K's, corporations take less than 90 days to do so

Marathon bomb suspect had been on welfare in Massachusetts — Truth In Accounting cited
4/24/2013
18% of MA residents received Medicaid in 2011; MA offers third largest welfare benefits package in the U.S.

BLOG

Editorial: 10 reasons why pensions matter to us, our wallets now
5/17/2013
Reboot Illinois COO lists top reasons IL pension reform matters

How 'honest and balanced' is IL's 2014 budget proposal?
5/14/2013
Who is going to stop Gov. Quinn from misleading citizens of Illinois?

Chicago-based Truth in Accounting awarded two grants from highly respected foundations
4/29/2013
$45k McCormick Foundation grant to expand collaboration with journalists, $80k Searle Freedom Trust to promote TIA's State Data Lab