Here’s a look at some of this week’s most interesting, and consequential, budget- and economy-related issues in the 50 states:
Last week, the Las Vegas Review Journal published an editorial lamenting government’s fuzzy math when it comes to awarding “stimulus” money.
In the Denver Post, Amy Goodman argues that in order to really deal with the debt and deficit, defense spending has to be on the chopping block.
With Denver’s ballooning budget deficit, the Denver Post’s John Bennett makes the case for cutting the pay of Denver’s city council members. He points out council members in comparable sized cities in Colorado are paid much less.
On Tuesday, the Las Vegas Review Journal reported that 500,000 city and county government jobs across the country could be lost due to budget shortfalls.
Shane Goldmacher wrote yesterday in the Los Angeles Times that California is nearing the fifth week of the fiscal year without a budget. He reports that closed-door meetings have “produced little but tension and finger-pointing.”
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