Rhode Island
State Budget Sources
State Budget Sources: An Annotated Guide to State Budgets, Financial Reports, and Fiscal Analyses is a resource published by the Volcker Alliance designed to help public officials, policy advocates, journalists, academics, and concerned citizens fully understand the critical fiscal decisions that governors and legislators must make. The guide includes the links below to budgets for this state as well as legislative analyses of budget bills and treasurers’ or comptrollers’ monthly state cash-flow statements; capital spending plans; reports on public-worker pension funding and returns; and reports by local and national fiscal research organizations, bond rating firms, and associations of state fiscal and finance officials.
Executive and Other Constitutional Finance Offices
Current and prior-year budgets, with budget primer, revenue, and caseload data, as well as performance information.
Comprehensive annual financial reports, quarterly reports, comparative revenue reports, and other postemployment benefit information.
Spending, revenues, contracts, employee compensation, tax credits, and performance.
Non-Governmental Organizations
Budget toolbox and tax coverage with a focus on low- and moderate-income people; was formerly known as The Poverty Institute; part of the State Priorities Partnership, a network of state organizations coordinated by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Research on taxes, spending, and pensions, with an emphasis on limited government; part of the State Policy Network of state-focused, free market-oriented think tanks.
Public policy research and education association, with public finance as a key focus; member of the Governmental Research Association.