
US states need federal assistance regardless of which party they vote for
Republicans are renewing claims that federal aid to states will amount to red states bailing out blue ones. Covid-era budget data shows that's not the case.
Republicans are renewing claims that federal aid to states will amount to red states bailing out blue ones. Covid-era budget data shows that's not the case.
Austerity feeds on the US's unique form of urban decline. To understand how, just look to Northeast Ohio.
State and local officials in the US are faced with a lot of bad options, but they don't have to cut jobs and services.
Relying on targeted taxes and fees has proved troublesome this year, while property taxes look like a relatively safe bet.
As cities and states across the US face stark budget decisions, recent history in Wisconsin provides an object lesson in what can happen when a public-sector workforce shrinks.
Congress appears unlikely to help with the looming Covid-related budget disaster that nearly every local government in America now faces. And cuts in the public sector will only worsen the recession.
Municipal finance experts worry the pandemic economy may revive some fraught methods for cutting city budgets.
Professor Kim Phillips-Fein explains today's parallels with New York City’s financial disaster in 1975.
Unpacking the financial reality of mass transit's uncertain future.
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