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This is a list of U.S. states by credit rating, showing credit ratings for sovereign bonds as reported by the three major credit rating agencies: Standard & Poor's, Fitch and Moody's. The list is given as of May 2021.
California faced another budget gap for 2010, [8] with $72 billion in debt. [9] California faced a massive and still-growing debt. [10] In June 2009 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said "Our wallet is empty, our bank is closed and our credit is dried up." [11] He called for massive budget cuts of $24 billion, about 1 ⁄ 4 of the state's budget. [11 ...
A number of states have a two-year or three year budget (e.g.: Kentucky) while others have a one-year budget (e.g.: Massachusetts). In the table, the fiscal years column lists all of the fiscal years the budget covers and the budget and budget per capita columns show the total for all those years.
California’s Employment Development Department, which oversees the state’s unemployment insurance program, has said that it would rely on increased federal taxes on employers to pay down the debt.
Americans have been racking up debt very rapidly in the past months. For instance, as of the second quarter of 2023, total household debt rose by $16 billion to reach $17.06 trillion in the second...
The current debt ceiling was approved in December 2021 on a party line vote. It passed after months of political wrangling, and only because Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell agreed to ...
News reports and commentators have cited the state's various legislative supermajority requirements as a contributing factor to the state budget crisis. [23] [24] The state has a long history of supermajority requirements with a 1933 state ballot measure mandating a two-thirds supermajority to pass the state budget and California Proposition 13 (1978) mandating another two-thirds supermajority ...
Instead, it remains the same, keeping interest rates on 30-year fixed mortgage rates around 7% and credit card interest rates at high levels. The Fed wants the annual rate of inflation to sink to 2%.