When state leaders have data and analysis that illuminate their states’ long-term risks and outlooks, they are better able to ensure that their budgets stay on a sustainable path. As part of its 2023 report “Tools for Sustainable State Budgeting,” The Pew Charitable Trusts produced fact sheets on each state that, since the start of 2018, has published one or both of two tools that provide the information policymakers need:
These fact sheets describe the strengths of each state’s analyses, ways in which those analyses have informed policymakers’ decisions, and opportunities to improve.
Alaska | Arizona | California | Colorado |
Connecticut | Florida | Illinois | Maine |
Maryland | Minnesota | Montana | Nebraska |
New Mexico | New York | North Carolina | Pennsylvania |
Rhode Island | Tennessee | Utah | West Virginia |