Tag: Fiscal Policy

Unlike industries such as electronics where efficiency drives down prices, the housing market resembles sectors like healthcare and higher education, ...

Efforts to balance city budgets are opportunities to build consensus with the public about what municipalities can do, and at ...

The urban doom loop isn’t inevitable, but it requires leaders willing to make difficult, unpopular decisions to break the cycle.

While states and localities currently rely on substantial federal funding for essential services (including infrastructure, education, public safety, and Medicaid), ...

Colorado’s ballot measures are just two of nearly a dozen upcoming questions dealing with property taxes in states across the ...

The problem is cities' overly optimistic assumptions to calculate their liabilities, including unrealistically high rates of return on pension fund ...

Most Americans live in suburbs — they do so because they find it an attractive and low cost of living. Many ...

At the end of FY 2020, 61 cities did not have enough money to pay all their bills. This means ...