Competing Front Pages on State Budgets: USA Today vs. Wall Street Journal

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On the same day that the Wall Street Journal is telling readers that the housing slump is leading to growing state and local budget deficits, USA Today reports that state and local capital spending has been a major prop for the economy.

--Dean Baker

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