Since 2014, the Center for State and Local Finance (CSLF) has connected policymakers, practitioners, and academics in public finance through innovative policy research and consulting, as well as premier executive education for state and local leaders. CSLF researchers specialize in four main areas:

– Budgeting and financial management

– Tax policy and reform

– Education finance

– Economic development and urban policy

CSLF regularly provides governments with revenue forecasting services and produces many of the state’s cityhood studies. The center includes a team of administrative staff, researchers, affiliated faculty, and graduate research assistants, employed as Public Finance Fellows, who work together to serve governments and citizens in Georgia and beyond.

CSLF is one of three centers that comprise the Andrew Young School’s Public Finance Research Cluster.