State Debt Levels

We have been noting a lot of traffic to a past post on state debt levels, indicating that readers might be looking for resources and statistics on the topic. Though we updated the earlier post, we thought it might additionally be helpful to do a partial re-posting of the old material today to keep everything close to hand:

Here is a CNN Money page with an interactive map which allows users to see per capita debt levels, while readers can visit the article which linked to the map here. Meanwhile, this Forbes map, while a bit more dated, provides slightly more information out of the same format. Here is an interesting page with statistics as well as functionality allowing users to make their own charts. Finally, for those with an economist's dismal sense of humor, we stumbled across this Boston Fed report from 1997 with summaries of the economic status of each the states of the New England region. The real laughs come on pages 5, 6 and 7 where readers can read about budget surpluses in places like Massachusetts and Connecticut.