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There is a new on-line tool from the Office of the State Comptroller that allows you to see how state spending and revenue is tracking against budgeted amounts throughout the year.
For the first time, you can easily search branches of government by department, fund and line-item to make those comparisons.
Among the transparency tool’s achievements:
- Ends your reliance on complicated, hard-to-understand budget documents
- Allows you to interactively explore the approved budget
- Provides budget and spending trends for line items or higher level categories
- Allows you to download raw datasets
Visit openbudget.ct.gov if you are interested in these resources. Proactively examining data such as this is one of the few ways that we can hold the state accountable for its actions, and I encourage you to take a look.
