This week on the Center’s Public I podcast, Executive Director Bill Buzenberg talks to reporter Caitlin Ginley about the Center's latest state-by-state survey of financial disclosure laws, which found that 20 out of the 50 states received a failing grade and three of those states have no disclosure requirements at all.

It was a minor improvement over the 24 states that failed our last survey in 2006. Louisiana turned out to be the most improved state, due to a sweeping ethics reform enacted by Governor Bobby Jindal. Mississippi was this year’s second-most improved state, having jumped 10 spots on the list from number 34 to 24.

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