Massachusetts
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
Transparency site from the governor’s office, with sections on spending and revenue.
Current and past budget documents, as well as budget process information.
Comprehensive annual financial reports, budget stabilization fund information, actuarial valuations, and a variety of budget and finance reports mandated by the Legislature.
Also known as the state rainy day fund, a cash reserve.
Multiple resources, including financial disclosures, actuarial reports, annual reports, and comprehensive investment and debt information.
Non-Governmental Organizations
Analyzes state budget and tax issues, with a focus on low- and moderate-income people; part of the State Priorities Partnership, a network of state organizations coordinated by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Comprehensive and frequently updated watch on Massachusetts’ finances and budget; member of the Governmental Research Association and of the National Taxpayers Conference.
Research organization with policy emphasis but with forays into budget and finance issues, including public retirement systems; member of the Governmental Research Association; part of the State Policy Network of state-focused, free market-oriented think tanks.