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- Stateline Story
Report: State Deficits Loom Despite Stimulus
The federal government paid out all but $1 billion of the anticipated $49 billion in stimulus money for states and localities for fiscal 2009, a Congressional watchdog reported Sept. 23. But some states are still coming up short.more -
- Stateline Story
Budget Cuts Drive DMV Changes
Drivers going to the department of motor vehicles will likely face longer lines and higher service fees in several states as recession-ravaged budgets force the shutdown of branch offices, a reduced work force and the need to raise revenue.more -
- Stateline Story
At Least 26 States Spend Less on Prisons
The recession is taking a dramatic toll on what had been one of the fastest-growing areas of state government spending: prisons. A new survey says corrections budgets are down in at least 26 states, with prison officials laying off workers or reducing their pay, eliminating vocational and other programs for inmates and granting some prisoners early release.more -
- Report
- Election Initiatives
Provisional Ballots
This July 2009 brief served as an introduction to a larger discussion regarding the role of provisional ballots as a partial solution to underlying problems in our election system.
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- Stateline Story
Furloughs Cut Into State Services
With states facing a $121 billion shortfall in the next fiscal year, a growing number of them have turned to squeezing their workforce for savings, and effects both great and small will be felt.more -
- State Fact Sheet
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- Stateline Story
States Retooling Laws to Bury Coal's CO2
Pumping air pollution into underground caverns may seem far-fetched, but friends of the coal industry, the federal government and some environmentalists are talking about burying coal-fired electric plant emissions to fight global warming. States have lots to do to make the experimental projects attractive.more -
- Stateline Story
Smart Grid's Growth Now Depends on States
Now that Congress has directed $4.6 billion in stimulus spending toward developing a "smart" electric grid, it will be up to the states to get consumers on board and adjust rates to pay for the technology. The improvements, backers say, will change nearly every part of the nation's aging power transmission system - from how power plants distribute power to how consumers use it at home.more -
- Analysis
- Economic Mobility Project
Opinion Poll on Economic Mobility and the American Dream
In early 2009, the project commissioned a national survey and series of focus groups to provide a more accurate picture of how Americans view their own economic mobility and to better understand how their perceptions square with the reality of
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- Stateline Story
Tracking the Recession: States Boost Foreclosure Programs
The Obama administration has lots of company in its effort to slow home foreclosures. States have been coming up with solutions of their own.more
