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Obamacare Is Secretly A Bailout Of State And Local Governments
In 2012, the Pew Center on the States calculated that states have accrued $627 billion in unfunded …
Josh Barro
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State And Local Governments Are Finally Adding Jobs Again
Throughout the "recovery" following the financial crisis, one of the big drags on employment growth…
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State And Local Governments Are Finally Adding Jobs Again
Throughout the "recovery" following the financial crisis, one of the big drags on employment growth…
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Inadequate stimulus will create the same risks that crippled the economic recovery following the Great Recession, experts say
Budget shortfalls threaten additional job cuts, gutted social programs, and can cripple states' abi…
Ben Winck,Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Biden's stimulus may have just saved NYC - and countless state and local governments
The stimulus includes $5.6 billion in aid for NYC. Mayor Bill de Blasio just said the situation was…
Juliana Kaplan
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Fed's Powell says state and local governments are rebounding faster right now than during the financial crisis
Pandemic-related expenses still pose a risk to governments, but tax revenues have largely outperfor…
Ben Winck
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accuses Republicans of defunding the police by refusing to send aid to state and local governments
"You want to know who's actually trying to defund the police? Republicans," Ocasio-Cortez told her …
Eliza Relman
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In a rare show of solidarity, Republicans and Democrats are working together to pass sweeping criminal justice reform in Michigan as the state's jail population grows
At a time when Michigan has become emblematic of our broken political system, lawmakers have come t…
J. Lester Feder
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14 Democratic state treasurers caution Congress against 'clawing back' stimulus funds for infrastructure
As the GOP floats the repurposing of unused stimulus money to fund infrastructure, state treasurers…
Ayelet Sheffey
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New IBM research suggests that state and local governments are not getting trained to address the ransomware that is crippling cities and that threatens the 2020 elections
The 2021 budget's summary of those programs says, "in preparation for the upcoming 2020 elections, …
Jeff Elder
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The GOP's 'deprivation' fetish is making it impossible to make policy, even in a total disaster
Republicans want to make disaster policy based on which Americans they think are worthy of help, no…
Linette Lopez
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Republican mayors urge Congress to provide aid for local governments - but Mitch McConnell has dismissed such money as a 'blue-state bailout'
A group of 150 mayors representing cities from Michigan to Louisiana urged Congress to provide imme…
Charles Davis
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Some state and local governments vote against COVID-19 restrictions, citing 'tyranny' as US deaths approach 3,000 per day
Anti-lockdown protestors are not unique to the US, but recent moves by local governments against go…
Jake Lahut
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You want radical police reform? Vote in local elections.
The president doesn't make police department policy, local governments do. If lawmakers fear being …
Anthony L. Fisher
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Slashing state budgets disproportionately impacts families of color — and could extend the recession
States that embraced cuts during the Great Recession of 2008 had much slower recoveries and fell be…
Paul Constant
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Condo collapse reveals that Florida's high rise building rules were unevenly enforced by local governments across the state
Florida's high-rise building regulations are among the strictest in the country but not all local g…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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How the state and local budget crisis got left behind in the stimulus talks, losing out to $600 checks
As Congressional negotiations get down to the wire, state and local governments are facing serious …
Jake Lahut
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Austin, Texas locals have been priced out by wealthy out-of-state tech workers. Now the government is stepping in.
Austin's supply of affordable housing is on the decline — but a new bond may turn the tide for resi…
Alcynna Lloyd
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Paid sick leave could help prevent the spread of coronavirus - but 18 states have barred local governments from implementing it
The US is among the few developed nations that don't mandate that employers pay workers when they f…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Some Democrats are ready to give up on demands for state and local aid to get a COVID-19 stimulus bill passed
Sens. Chris Coons and Dick Durbin signaled they'd support a $748 billion compromise COVID-19 relief…