General links
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Federal, State, and Local Government Retirement Systems (Census Bureau)  |
| Federal Government Salaries Table |
| American Federation of Government Employees (the union for civil servants) |
| Complete U.S. Federal Government Agencies Directory |
| Census data on Federal, State, and Local Governments |
| National Federation of Federal Employees |
| National Education Association (Lobbying Group for Teachers) |
| Civil Service Systems in Comparative Perspective (Indiana University) |
| U.S. Office of Personnel Management: Federal Retirement Programs |
| Understanding the Wisconsin Civil Service System |
| Civil Service Retirement System (U.S. Department of the Interior) |
| State Universities Civil Service Classification Specification (N. Illinois University) |
| Civil Service Threatened by Bush (NY Times Editorial) |
| The Spoils System vs. The Merit System |
| Civil Service Reform (1860s) |
| Teachers' Salaries by State |
| Government Executive Magazine Online |
| Unions and Government Employment |
| The Hawaii Government Employees Association (union) |
| A Job At the World Bank: High Pay and No Income Tax |
| Corruption Perception Index: U.S. ranks below Singapore and Australia. |
| Government Employee Unions Deliver Votes for Democrat Party |
| IMF: The Ideal Government Job: Six figure salary and many extras, no income tax. |
| Brookings Institute whines 'Can't Public Servants Get Some Respect?' |
| 1997 Census of Governments: Federal, State, and Local Governments |
| AFL-CIO sues federal government to represent government employees and wins. |
| Hatch Act for Federal Employees (Political activism by public servants) |
| Hatch Act for State and Local Government Employees. |
| National Association of Letter Carriers AFL-CIO |
| National Treasury Employees Union |
| American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees AFL-CIO |
| President Clinton Turns Government Management Over to Unions 1993 |
| Unions.org : Funding the Labor Movement |
| Where Unions and Government Workers Invest Their Pension Funds |
| Federal Employee Education and Assistance Fund |
| Politics, Big Business, Big Government, Big Media |
| Occupational Outlook: Government Chief Executives and Legislators |
Census of Government Organizations: Popularly Elected Officials  |
| Cato Institute Speech on 'Reinventing Government' |
| IRS Abuse Reports |
| IRS Abuse of Taxpayers' Fifth Amendment Rights Defeated |
| Senate Testimony of David Burnham on IRS Abuse |
| IRS Workers Abuse Internet Access |
| Senate Testimony of Phillip A. MacNaughton on IRS Abuse |
| Cato Institute: Ten Top Civil Liberty Abuses of the Income Tax |
| The Politics of Government Growth |
| Project on Government Secrecy |
| U.S. Department of Labor: Measuring Government Productivity |
| Rutgers University: National Center for Public Productivity |
| Citizens Against Government Waste |
| Citizens for Tax Justice |
| Cato Institute: Federal Aid to Dependent Corporations |
| Cato Institute: Corporate Welfare |
| Hoover Institution: Getting Business Off The Dole |
| Project on Government Oversight |
| Government Employees Relations Report |
| A New Charge Against Fraud and Waste |
Specific Links: State and Local Governments
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| CAFR Network |
| Census Bureau: Retirement Systems of State and Local Governments |
| Government Finance Officers' Association (GFOA) |
| Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) |
| SLGS Securities (U.S. Treasury) |
| BEA: Index to NIPA Tables (See State & Local Governments) |
| Locating Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports (CAFR) |
| The CAFR Exposed |
| FASB and GASB: What's the Difference? |
Specific Links: Federal Government
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| Federal Reserve Bulletin |
| BEA: Survey of Current Business (See U.S. International Transactions) |
| Monthly Statement of the Public Debt |
| IRS: Statistics of Income |
| Office of Management and Budget |
| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
| Treasury Department: The Public Debt Online |
| U.S. National Debt Clock |
| The Federal Budget: Fact File |
| Citizen's Guide to the Federal Budget |
| BEA: NIPA Accounts Index (See Federal Government) |
| Budget of the U.S. Government - Fiscal Year 2005 |
| World Bank: Government at Risk: Contingent Liabilities and Fiscal Risk |
| IMF: Contingent Government Liabilities, A Hidden Fiscal Risk |
| Receipts and Outlays of Federal Government 1789 - 2005 |
| National Debt Awareness Center |
| 40 million filers pay no income taxes. |
Specific Links: Government Sponsored Enterprises
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| Federal Home Loan Banks |
| ABA: Industry Issues: Federal Home Loan Bank System |
| Federal Housing Finance Board |
| U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development |
| OFHEO: Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight |
| Fannie Mae |
| Freddie Mac |
| Sallie Mae |
| Farm Credit Administration |
| FDIC: The S&L Crisis: A Chrono-Bibliography |
| Law: Federal Land Banks |
| FCSIC: Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation |
| Farm Credit System Institution Types |
| SLM Holding Corp. |
| CATO Institute: The Financing Corporation, GSEs, & Moral Hazard |
| OCC: Financing Corporation funding |
| Law: Resolution Funding Corporation (REFCORP) |
| Financing Vehicles (FICO and REFCORP) & the Board of Governors of the Fed |
| BEA: NIPA Tables Index: (See Federal Government, Government Enterprises) |
Books
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| 'A State of Risk: Will Government-Sponsored Enterprises Be The Next Financial Crisis?', Hardcover, Thomas H. Stanton
How America is balancing its books on a high wire. |
| 'Government Sponsored Enterprises: Mercantilist Companies in a Modern World', Hardcover, Thomas H. Stanton
Are GSEs still useful? |
| 'The Budget-Maximizing Bureaucrat: Appraisals and Evidence', Hardcover, Andre Blais, Stephane Dion
Essays on what motivates government officials. |
| 'If Americans Really Understood the Income Tax: Uncovering Our Most Expensive Ignorance', Hardcover, John O. Fox
Exposes the narrowness of the tax base and how tax laws reveal government values. |
| 'Government Finance Review', Magazine Subscription. |
| 'Urban Financial Stress: Why Cities Go Broke', Hardcover, Joan K. Martin
This hard-to-find book should be in the library of every student of the economics and politics of local government. |
| 'Take the Rich off Welfare', Paperback, Mark Zepezauer
A book about government waste. |
| 'The Sixteen Trillion Dollar Mistake: Paperback, Bruce S. Jansson
Government waste from FDR to Clinton |
| 'Colossus: The Price of America's Empire', Hardcover, Niall Ferguson
America's imperial status and its consequences by one of the world's best historians. |
| 'Union Organizing in the Public Sector: An Analysis of State and Local Elections', Paperback, Kate Bronfenbrenner, Tom Juravich
A serious statistical analysis. |
| 'Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It', Paperback, James Q. Wilson
A comprehensive and insightful guide to the motivation of the federal government |
| 'The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House', Hardcover, Barbara Olson
Government at its worst |
| 'The Rights of Public Employees: The Basic ACLU Guide to the Rights of Public Employees', Paperback, Robert M. O'Neil
The chilling facts on why it is almost impossible to fire incompetent public servants. |
BOOK SEARCH: State and Local Government |
BOOK SEARCH: Federal Budget |
BOOK SEARCH: Government Sponsored Enterprises |
