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September 14, 2009
Human Capital Trends and Innovations
This September 2009 report identified a number of creative management practices that states are using to increase employee productivity and meet agency goals.
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Weekly Wrap: Doing the Math on State Jobs
State and local governments are not gaining employees recently; officials worry about revenue loss from tax breaks; Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell discovers 40 pounds of fat to cut.more -
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Weekly Wrap: Recession Forcing Government Overhaul
Oregon, Louisiana launch review of government; Utah's four-day work week saves on energy costs; new pension report released.more -
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California's agony can't be ignored
Everyone knows public finances in California, America's once-fabled Golden State of opportunity, are in shambles. But should the rest of us care? The state's ever-rising deficit has hit $24.3 billion as the legislature's liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans remain in constant deadlock. Voters in May overwhelmingly rejected five "budget reform" ballot measures.more -
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Stimulus Tax Breaks Threaten State Revenues
Tax breaks in the federal economic stimulus package could cost cash-strapped state treasuries tens of millions of dollars in income and corporate tax revenue, officials say.more -
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AGs Optimistic on Better State-Fed Relations
State attorneys general, who this month attended their first meeting with new U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, say they are hopeful they can forge better relations with Washington, D.C., on environmental protection, sex offender policy and other subjects that became state-federal battlegrounds during the Bush administration.more -
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Crises Come Quick for Nation's Newest Gov
Illinois Gov.Pat Quinn (D)The nation's newest governor, Democrat Pat Quinn of Illinois, walked the hallways at the National Governors Association meeting in Washington, D.C., last weekend largely unnoticed by reporters or advocates who sidled up to just about every other governor. He's still getting to know his own staff. But back home, having barely finished his third week in office, he's in the thick of it.more -
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Tracking the Recession: Lowering Expectations
Governors and other elected officials are trying to avoid overselling the federal stimulus package as the magic solution for state budget woes.more -
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Governors Downplay Stimulus Rift
Just one week after Congress approved an historic economic stimulus package to create jobs and help end the recession, the nation's governors tamped down the divisions among them over whether to turn back some of the federal dollars flowing to their states from the $787 billion plan.more -
February 11, 2009
Trade-Off Time
This February 2009 report showed how tough economic times could be a crucible forging better decision making and a heightened vigilance to ensure every precious tax dollar delivers maximum value for the public.
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