Topic: budgets
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Charts
Quantifying the Cost of Sprawl
In infrastructure, service delivery and tax receipts.
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Charts
The Sequester Is Hitting the Country's Neediest Students the Hardest
Children from poor families and special needs kids are disproportionately impacted by the cuts.
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Death by a Million Cuts: What Cities Stand to Lose If We Go Over the Fiscal Cliff
Let's look at Baltimore as a case study for the on-the-ground, scary risks of federal inaction.
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Charts
Why All Those New Fees Your City Is Charging Are Likely Permanent
Cash-strapped local governments overwhelmingly turned to fees instead of raising taxes in recent years. And they like them.
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Debt of the Day: Berlin Owes the Town of Mittenwalde 'Trillions'
Compound interest can really compound when you leave a loan unpaid for 500 years.
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Charts
The Simple Math That Can Save Cities From Bankruptcy
Forget raising taxes or cutting services. If cities understood the economics of land use better, they might not need to do either.
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Democracy in America
Can a Town Get By Without Its Public Works Department?
Favoring privatization, a New Jersey mayor’s budget proposes to cut garbage collection, street cleaning, and more.
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To Understand the City’s Budget, Write It
To help citizens better understand the budget process, Calgary's mayor let them craft it themselves.
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The Delusion and Deception in Megaproject Cost Estimates
Toronto's planned Crosstown light rail project looks to mitigate colossal budget overruns
