Just in time for Halloween and Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), municipal finance watchdog, Truth in Accounting (TIA) published its financial analysis on the United States’ top three most populated cities–New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Unfortunately, the fiscal condition of these cities is scarier than any costume you have seen this week. TIA, a non-partisan, not-for-profit municipal finance organization created in 2002, gave New York and Chicago a failing grade of ‘F’ and Los Angeles only a notch above, a ‘D.’ Read more