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States Prioritize Reserves as Fiscal Flexibility Declines
The strength of rainy day funds in half of the states and nationwide increased during fiscal year 2024—according to states’ own estimates collected by the National Association of State Budget Officers ...
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Manufactured Homes Are a Crucial Source of Lower-Cost Housing, but Financing Is a Major Hurdle
With few new starter or lower-cost homes being built in the U.S., communities throughout the nation could leverage manufactured homes (modern mobile homes) to help increase the housing supply. However ...
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What the Federal Reserve’s Policy Shift Means for State and Local Budgets
The Federal Reserve intended for today’s interest rate cut of 0.5 percentage points to stimulate the broader economy, but this shift in monetary policy also represents a subtle but important change in ...
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States Reckon With Lapse of the Broadband Affordable Connectivity Program
Funding for the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) lapsed in May 2024, ending a monthly subsidy that 23 million households nationwide had been using to afford high-speed internet connections. The ...
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Repeatedly Flooded Properties Cost Billions
Flooding is the most costly and most common natural disaster in the United States. 1 The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) provides federally backed ...
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Researchers Explore State Expenditure Forecasting Challenges
Long-term revenue and spending projections can help states determine whether their budgets are on a sustainable path—or whether, instead, they can expect to face structural budget gaps. But although ...
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Immigrants’ Economic and Fiscal Role in Philadelphia
Immigrants play an outsize role in Philadelphia’s economy. They fill jobs, create businesses, own homes, and fuel entire industries at rates beyond their growing share of the city’s population (15.7% ...
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Early Planning Can Curb Costs, Climate Stress on Neglected Infrastructure
The growing impacts of climate change—from near-term events such as hurricanes, floods, and wildfires, to longer-term risks, including higher temperatures, droughts, and sea-level rise—have wreaked ...
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Opportunities Arise for Nations to Improve Ocean Health
The ocean is the lifeblood of our planet, regulating climate, feeding billions of people and animals and teeming with biodiversity. Yet it faces unprecedented threats from overfishing, pollution, ...
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How Public Funds Are Spent on Philadelphia’s Neighborhoods
Philadelphia’s communities are often characterized by their open spaces, such as parks, playgrounds, and plazas. In every neighborhood, these are places where residents gather, relax with family and ...
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States Should Better Leverage Medicaid to Fund Substance Use Services in Schools
Earlier this year, the Chicago-based national nonprofit Healthy Schools Campaign published a report on how Medicaid—the public health insurance program for low-income people in the United States—can ...
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International Day of Democracy
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