The pending solution to the political crisis over the national debt "could also squeeze state and local governments that are already strapped for cash," Suzy Khimm writes on Ezra Klein's blog for The Washington Post, noting that Congress has its eyes on education and Medicaid, two functions "that make up the largest parts of most states’ budgets. In many cases, such cuts "will pass onto local governments," Frank Shaforth, director of the Center for State and Local Government Leadership at George Mason University, told Khimm.
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Sunday, July 31, 2011
Deal to end national-debt fight is still unlikely to be good for state and local governments
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