April 2000
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More than half the states have mandatory minimum sentences for drug
offenders. Some of them are starting to rethink and revise their laws.
Living conditions for migrant farmworkers aren't much better in many
places than they were a generation ago. The issue is returning to
state agendas.
The nation's most innovative affordable housing program has survived
25 years. The next 25 may be the hard part.
Florida has recently become one of a handful of states to adopt a formal system of debt analysis aimed at helping guide debt-issuance decisions.
A once-obscure cost-accounting method is becoming the clearest path to
tracking the real costs of delivering services.
