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ECONOMIES OF AMERICAN CITIES
American cities are in trouble, the recession is straining cities' ability to meet their financial needs causing them to cutback on essential services, implementing hiring freezes and layoffs, delaying capital expenditures.The way out is to increase taxes or fees or both. The impact to businesses and the financial markets is harsh with 80% (CNN Estimate) in trouble.
Can the stimulus package or big government stop the trend? Will the further decline put a larger drag on the predicted financial recovery of the nation? Will reduction in services drive higher crime and further deterioration?
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At the event, U.S. Chamber President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue discussed the need to create more than 65,000 jobs in...
Little Rock, Ark.-based firm Gadberry Group recently announced its list of nine most notable recession-resistant growth...
Twin Cities housing market mimics economy in 2009 by Annie Baxter, Minnesota Public Radio January 13, 2010 St.
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Mark Abrams Philadelphia will learn this afternoon whether the city has made the final cut among 27 cities bidding to...
WASHINGTON A new report that reviewed 200 years of economic data from 44 nations has reached an ominous conclusion for...
The government may need to continue “targeted” programs to stimulate the U.S. economy even as growth over the first...
Ten Best Cities to Stage an Economic Revival Location is the other piece of the stimulus puzzle. To ensure that funding...
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From Madison, Wis., to San Angelo, Tex., and countless cities in between, the U.S. Census Bureau is busily hiring as...
Congressman Brad Sherman Tuesday, (D-Sherman Oaks) released the U.S. Census Bureau's latest San Fernando Valley Census...
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Mahoning and Trumbull Counties and the city of Youngstown are among the Ohio communities that will...
still has enormous inventiveness, energy, and capital at its disposal; civil society which, despite the collapse of the...
Despite a nearly 4 percent drop in travel to the city between 2008 and 2009, the city that never sleeps overtook...
From housing to banking to the job numbers, Huntsville's economy moved along at a pace that other markets would envy.
Public transportation will be more crowded and more expensive this year as big-city transit systems across the country...
it built numerous ships for the merchant navy of East Germany and other Communist countries. It received substantial...
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