Webinar: How State and Local Governments Can Manage Their $5 Trillion in Debt

Webinar: How State and Local Governments Can Manage Their Debt

State and local governments have a total of over $5 trillion in long-term liabilities. Join public finance experts for a webinar on how governments can manage their growing debt costs while still funding essential public services, keep pension promises made to workers, manage financial risks, improve financial reporting, and move toward more sustainable budgets and debt levels.

Speakers

Andy Matthews
Nevada State Controller, and former assemblymember, Nevada Legislature

Elaine Lu
Chair of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management, and director of the Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University

Farhad Omeyr
Program director of research and data at the National League of Cities, including NLC’s City Fiscal Conditions research

Don Boyd
Co-director of the Project on State and Local Government Finance at the University at Albany, SUNY

Mariana Trujillo
Managing director of government finance at Reason Foundation

Date and Time

Thursday, May 21, 2026

2:00 pm ET / 11:00 am PT

Register

Register to watch and attend via Zoom here. The panelists will take questions from attendees.

Can’t join us live? Register, and we’ll send you the recording.