1. Revenue Collection: The Urban Institute Backgrounder reading, State and Local Revenues reports total revenues for U.S. local governments in 2020. The reading by Erin Duffin (Statista)reports total revenues for reporting U.S. nonprofit organizations in 2016.    Even though the reporting years are different, which one collected more revenues - Local governments or nonprofit organizations?

 

2. Expenditures on Health and Hospitals: (in Urban Institute, State and Local Expenditures) - Looking at percentage change in state and local expenditures - has spending on Health and Hospitals (1) stayed about the same or (2) grown substantially in the period between 1977 and 2020?

 

3. Local Government Revenues: (in Urban Institute, State and Local Revenues) - in 2020 did local governments collect more revenue through property taxes or intergovernmental transfers?