• 4 Reforms for Florida in a Difficult Economy
• Posted By: Timothy Nash |   March 1, 2010
• By Tim Nash, Kurt Bouwhuis, Alexander Watts, and Jonathan Williams. Florida is facing a likely $3 billion budget gap in 2011-2012, and the temptation will be...
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• 5 Great Cost Saving Ideas
• Posted By: John O'Leary |   February 3, 2010
• In the good old days, economic slumps were followed by recoveries. To survive lean times, governments tightened their belts, maybe raised some taxes and waited...
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• AZ Looks to Close Budget Gap
• Posted By: John O'Leary |   January 18, 2010
• Not only is Arizona turning assets into cash through a sale-lease back approach, but Governor Jan Brewer's budget proposal is full of difficult cuts. The...
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• NY Lt. Gov. Ravitch: Stimulus Funds Driving States Over a Cliff
• Posted By: John O'Leary |   January 8, 2010
• An article in today's Wall Street Journal tells a grim tale of the unintended consequences of federal stimulus funds. According to Richard Ravitch, the Democratic...
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• California Groundhog Day
• Posted By: John O'Leary |   January 4, 2010
• The writer Edward Albey noted: "There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California." The ongoing problems of...
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• 5 Reforms to Save California
• Posted By: Adrian Moore |   January 4, 2010
• California's finances are a fiasco. The current budget, passed months after the start of the fiscal year, was over $6 billion upside down within two months...
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• 5 Reforms for a Better Michigan
• Posted By: Timothy Nash |   November 15, 2009
• As of October, 2009, Michigan had a projected budget shortfall of $2.8 billion for the current fiscal year. In recent history, the governor and Michigan legislature have...
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• Ending the Misery in Michigan
• Posted By: John O'Leary |   November 15, 2009
• Michigan is home to the nation's highest unemployment, and faces a gaping $2.8 billion budget hole. Northwood University's Keith Pretty and Timothy Nash offer five policy...
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• Massive shortfalls in Massachusetts
• Posted By: Stephen Goldsmith |   October 20, 2009
• Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick recently announced plans to lay off up to 2,000 state workers, as the Bay State joins the growing list of states in...
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• 5 Things Massachusetts Should Do Immediately
• Posted By: |   October 20, 2009
• Massachusetts has a big budget gap but tax hikes and service cuts shouldn't be the only approach. We must also change practices to help close...
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