Bianca Falk
Municipal Finance Data Editor
U.S. Census Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances — per-capita city and county spending
Bianca Falk leads how CitySpend reads and presents the U.S. Census Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances. The role decides which Census Finance vintage and revenue and expenditure categories each city, county, and state page uses, normalizes them into per-capita figures, documents how the Fiscal Health Score weights reserves, debt, pensions, efficiency, revenue diversity, and trend, and triages corrections. Spending figures and scores are drafted with AI assistance and editorially reviewed against the underlying Census Finance tables, with every page stamped to its source vintage.
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