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- Stateline Story
Best of #StateReads: Dangerous Times in New Jersey Halfway Houses
This week’s extraordinary journalism about state government, tagged to #StateReads on Twitter. more
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June 18, 2012
The Widening Gap Update
The gap between the promises states have made for public employees’ retirement benefits and the money they have set aside to pay these bills was at least $1.38 trillion in fiscal year 2010, according to Pew's latest comprehensive analysis on pension and retiree health care funding. more
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- Data Visualizations
- States' Fiscal Health
The Widening Gap
The gap between the promises states have made for public employees’ retirement benefits and the money they have set aside to pay these bills was at least $1.38 trillion in fiscal year 2010 more
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- Stateline Story
Competing Globally: Governors Give, Get Ideas
Politicians in hyper-partisan Washington may shun any proposal from across the aisle, but some governors aren’t shy about stealing a neighboring state’s idea and giving credit, regardless of their counterpart’s political party. more
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- Stateline Story
In Energy Policy, A Year Marked by Clashes in Federalism
New federal rules for power plants and natural gas drillers stirred heated debate in statehouses this year. more
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- Stateline Story
Best of #StateReads: Getting Aggressive With Pension Investments
This week’s extraordinary journalism about state government, tagged to #StateReads on Twitter. more
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- Stateline Story
Congress Seeks Input on State Nuclear Waste Woes
A U.S. Congressional subcommittee on Thursday (June 7) addressed a question states have long hoped the federal government would answer: Where will nuclear power plants permanently store their growing stockpiles of spent fuel and other hazardous waste? It’s a problem that has gone unresolved for decades, as the fede
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- American Cities Project
The Local Squeeze
While states slowly recover in the wake of the Great Recession, local governments have been hit with a one-two punch: State aid and property taxes, which together account for more than half of local revenues, are dropping simultaneously for the first time since 1980.
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- Data Visualizations
Economic Mobility of the States
Welcome to Economic Mobility of the States. This interactive tool captures the findings of the first analysis of Americans' economic mobility—their movement up or down the income ladder—on a state level. more
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- Economic Mobility Project
Economic Mobility of the States
Economic Mobility of the States is a new interactive tool that captures the findings of the first analysis of Americans’ economic mobility—their movement up and down the earnings ladder—at the state level, including data from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Users can click the map to see where in the country Americans are most likely to move up rather than down, and where they are most likely to move down rather than up. more
