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Not one of New Jersey's biggest cities has a modern, searchable and sortable budget website to allow easy access to checkbook-level municipal spending data.
Sep 21, 2016 Blog Post
Municipalities across the country have been moving toward making their checkbooks easily accessible to the public by posting government spending information through on-line transparency portals....
Sep 14, 2016 ReportState governments spend hundreds of billions of dollars each year through contracts for goods and services, subsidies to encourage economic development, and other expenditures. Public...
Apr 13, 2016 ReportSince its launch in 2011, FracFocus, a government- and industry-funded website, has been the only place where Americans could learn the details about chemicals and...
Jul 2, 2015 Blog PostWhat started in 2013 with a prototype system that sent email alerts to clients when specified keywords or phrases appeared in local government meeting agendas,...
Jun 2, 2015 Blog PostGamification of public policy choices and dilemmas isn’t just for recreation. Getting large numbers of people to play such games can support richer, more informed,...
Jun 1, 2015 Blog PostThe ability to see how government uses the public purse is fundamental to democracy. State governments across the country have made their checkbooks transparent by...
Mar 18, 2015 ReportWe welcomed the new year with a series of blog posts covering a number of our issue areas. Policy analysts reviewed developments and opportunities as...
Jan 27, 2015 Blog PostGovernment transparency debates often focus on the availability and accessibility of information pertaining to government spending. But what about transparency in the very ideas and...
Jan 16, 2015 Blog PostIn April, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in the McCutcheon v. FEC case that abolished aggregate limits on contributions to federal campaigns. No...
Sep 3, 2014 Blog Post
