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Reading Budgets: A Short Course
A four week evening course that teaches anyone to read a state budget and ask the right questions of it.
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Budgets are the most important policy documents a government produces, and among the least read. This short course demystifies them.
Weekly topics
- The budget documents and where to find them
- Revenue: where the money comes from
- Expenditure: where it goes, and what is already committed
- Deficits, debt and what sits outside the budget
Each week includes a short exercise using real budget documents.
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What participants will be able to do
- Navigate the main budget documents of a state government
- Distinguish revenue and capital spending, and different measures of deficit
- Track the difference between budget announcements and actual spending
Faculty and facilitators
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