How the Keystone State handles a shortfall in Philadelphia could prove decisive for urban mass transit.
state fiscal aid
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
How COVID’s End Could Upend Billions in State and Local Spending
The text of the American Rescue Plan has numerous references to the COVID public-health emergency. What happens when that emergency ends on May 11?
Posted inPodcasts
How the American Rescue Plan Is Backstopping the ‘Submerged State’
The Prospect interviewed researchers Amanda Kass and Philip Rocco on the American Rescue Plan, an unprecedented fiscal outlay for local governments that remains widely unknown.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Is Government Competent to Spend More Public Money?
Some lessons from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act
Posted inEconomic Policy
COVID-19 Relief Funds Fuel Employer Tax Breaks
Instead of helping workers, states steer pandemic emergency dollars to employers to help them pay down unemployment insurance debt.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Cities Want to Use Federal Rescue Funds to Pay Off Bank Debt
Activists and local progressive officials don’t want to let them.
Posted inTAP
Needed: More Rescue Funds for the Poorest Communities
Today on TAP: The inequity built into the American Rescue Plan
Posted inPolitics
The Crisis in State Governments Isn’t the Budgets, It’s the Governance
Statewide tax revenue paints a better-than-expected picture, but the political climate says something else.
Posted inFirst 100
First 100: Will Senate Democrats Shrink the State and Local Aid Fund?
They shouldn’t, because the debate hasn’t factored in increased state and local government costs.
Posted inTAP
What Having No Income Tax Gets a State During a Pandemic
Today on TAP: It’s not the blue states that have seen their revenues tank