UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs Dean Michael Pagano was presented with the Aaron Wildavsky Award, a lifetime achievement award, by the Association for Budgeting & Financial Management (ABFM). ABFM promotes advances in budgeting…
An article from Yahoo! Finance details a new study released by the Government Finance Research Center at UIC that found interest rates on health care municipal bonds significantly decreased due to the Affordable…
Associate Director Amanda Kass talks about Lightfoot’s budget challenges in Politico. Perhaps one of Lightfoot’s biggest challenges is whether or not to alter benefits or the state pension clause. Kass notes “I think…
GFRC external advisory board members Chris Hoene and Tracy Gordon will present their report “Fiscal Democracy in the States: How Much Spending is on Autopilot?” at Loyola University Law School. The report examines…
In an op-ed published by Crain’s Chicago Business, Michael Pagano, dean of the UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs and director of the Government Finance Research Center, writes that it is…
A Chicago Sun-Times/Better Government Association fact check of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s comments on downstate public safety pension funds includes comments from Amanda Kass, associate director of the Government Finance Research Center. Kass…
A Crain’s Chicago Business/Better Government Association story on the burden suburban Cook County residents face when property taxes rise and home values collapse includes comments from Michael Pagano, dean of the UIC College…
Rebecca Hendrick was quoted in a Fox News story that details how the state of Illinois hired a debt collection agency to collect unpaid traffic tickets- some from as far back as the…
A state law that went into effect in 2016 allows local police and fire pension boards to request the Illinois Comptroller’s office to intercept funds and redirect those monies to the pension systems…
David Merriman, James J. Stukel Presidential Professor in the UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs and with the University of Illinois’ Institute of Government and Public Affairs, is quoted in a…