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> How many regular voters bother to read the raw, uneditorialized finances that the government provides Where can I get this data? Does the US provide CSVs or
by erhaetherth 3y ago
> How many regular voters bother to read the raw, uneditorialized finances that the government provides
Where can I get this data? Does the US provide CSVs or JSON or something?
- alwa 3y agoYes, and they put a fair degree of effort into making it accessible. One good place to start might be with the Treasury’s fiscal data site [0]. As their plucky little public outreach page [1] points out: “A regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.” U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 9 [0] https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/ https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/ [1] https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/ https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/