Dean Michael Pagano responds to questions about city revenues in our current booming economy. Featured in Governing Magazine, Pagano’s article cites faults in cities’ tax systems as the cause of the slow return…
GFRC Faculty Affiliate, Dermot Murphy, reports on the effect of newspaper closures on public finance. Murphy argues that newspaper closures have an adverse effect municipal borrowing costs and revenue bonds. Read more here.
GFRC Associate Director, Amanda Kass, spoke to Radio Islam on the future on Chicago public pension funds and what issue the new Chicago mayor will inherit. You can listen to the livestream here.
Amanda Kass, associate director of the Government Finance Research Center at UIC, is quoted in a Chicago Sun-Times/Better Government Association fact-check story on Republican attorney general candidate Erika Harold. A Harold campaign ad…
In Law 360 Amanda Kass, associate director of the Government Finance Research Center, looks back at some of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s controversial tax policies.
ABC 7 Chicago interviewed Michael Pagano, dean of UIC’s College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, in a segment on Chicago mayoral candidates no longer being able to rely on campaign messages about…
Amanda Kass, GFRC associate director, was a panelist on WTTW-TV’s “Chicago Tonight” for a segment on Mayor Emanuel’s proposed $10 billion pension obligation bond. Video and text for the story are available here.
In Gazette Chicago, Michael Pagano, dean of UIC’s College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs offers suggestions for the Cook County Board as they consider creating a revenue forecasting commission.
Dean Michael Pagano was quoted in an article from Governing that discussed the ability of cities to respond to recessions or other large events. Read the full article here.
Professor Dermot Murphy presented “Financing dies in darkness? The impact of newspaper closures on public finance’”, at the 2018 Municipal Finance Conference. The paper is available here, and a video of his presentation is…
