Mississippi
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
Finance and budget with bond information, budget, financial reporting, and fiscal management, as well as other administrative functions.
Budget overview, instructions, and links to current and past appropriations.
Provides tool to sort appropriations by function, agency, and expense type; information is currently available only through 2014.
Non-Governmental Organizations
Some focus on budget and tax issues from a viewpoint concerned with economic security and social justice; part of the State Priorities Partnership, a network of state organizations coordinated by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Focused on public policy, with some attention to spending; part of the State Policy Network of state-focused, free market-oriented think tanks.
Legislative Offices
Budget documents, monthly revenue reports, and performance information, as well as budget committee recommendations and budget summaries.
Focused on policy and performance but includes reviews related to budget and finance issues, such as reports on the retirement system.