(The Center Square) – Wisconsin was graded with a “B” with a $1,100 financial surplus per resident in Truth in Accounting’s new State of the State report.
The Wisconsin numbers ranked the state 23rd out of 50 states while 25 states had negative obligations related to pensions and promised health care benefits to government workers.
Truth in Accounting Founder and CEO Sheila Weinberg told The Center Square that the state’s $1.5 billion in retiree health care liability as her largest concern on the state’s ledger.
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“Wisconsin is usually doing pretty well but we are nervous about the federal funding drying up,” Weinberg said. “During COVID, the funding was increased for all of the states.”
Weinberg said that, if funding went back to pre-COVID levels less inflation that
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