State and local government: contracts and expenditures databases
Source: Office of the State Comptroller
Open Book New York (http://www.openbooknewyork.com/) is an easy-to-use Web site that allows the public unprecedented access to the financial information of state and local governments.
The Web site contains searchable databases of more than 60,000 state contracts and spending for more than 100 state agencies and 3,100 local governments. All the available information can be loaded as a PDF file or an Excel spreadsheet.
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