Fiscal Research Center
The Financial Position of Pennsylvania’s Public Sector: Past, Present, and Future
The Financial Position of Pennsylvania’s Public Sector: Past, Present, and Future (Robert P. Strauss and Joshua L. Hart). History teaches us that where a government and its citizens are financially depends on the sort of economic and political decisions that were made in the past.This report examines the financial position of Pennsylvania’s state and local governmental sectors, which we take to mean the long-term liabilities of Pennsylvania’s public sector in relation to its long-term ability to finance them. FRC Report 155 (June 2007)