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State and local leaders have taken to saying, ‘We’re broke.’ The true story is a lot more complicated.
Nonprofits deliver crucial health and human services to the most vulnerable populations, but state budget constraints are endangering their operations.
Cities are struggling to increase residential density without destroying single-family neighborhoods. That means the return of the backyard cottage.
States are increasingly utilizing prison labor to plug budget holes, but public employee unions aren’t happy.
Free-market economists argue that replacing welfare programs with direct cash grants to the poor would require a smaller bureaucracy and be more beneficial to those in need.