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Fend-for-yourself federalism: the impact of federal and state deficits on America's cities. Christopher W. Hoene, Michael A. Pagano.
Government Finance Review
Oct 2003 v19 i5 p36(7)
Instructions: Locate this article by visiting
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and entering "fend-for-yourself federalism" as Keyword search terms, and then answer the following questions.
1. What has been the recent trend regarding amounts of money ttransferred from federal and state governments to local governments?
2. What has been the recent financial condition of local and state governments?
3. How have cities responded to these changing fiscal conditions?
4. Why do the authors call the current situation "fend-for-yourself federalism"?
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