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Full-Text Articles in Public Economics
Providence's Unending Quest For Cash, Chester Smolski
Providence's Unending Quest For Cash, Chester Smolski
Smolski Texts
"The mayor of Providence has a big problem. How can he balance a budget that addresses the needs of an increasingly large number of people, yet deal with a declining tax base that is less able to pay for theses extra services?"
How Goes The American Dream?, Chester Smolski
How Goes The American Dream?, Chester Smolski
Smolski Texts
"Americans are a hard-working lot. The ambitious American worker has fewer holidays, less vacation time and other benefits than Western Europeans. They are well-rewarded for their pursuit of the American dream. Home ownership rates in this country are among the highest rates in the world. The typical American worker has more cars and more kitchen gadgets, electronic hardware, recreational gear and more computers in his home than any other worker in the world."
Capital Facilities Inventory And Assessment Study Grafton, Massachusetts, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Capital Facilities Inventory And Assessment Study Grafton, Massachusetts, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
The reason for this report was to provide a public facilities inventory component for the Grafton Master Plan, assess the existing levels of public services in relation to capital facilities, and research an array of standards and guidelines through which Grafton, Massachusetts could identify excess or deficient capital facilities.
A Methodology For Determining The Local Impacts Of Defense Spending, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
A Methodology For Determining The Local Impacts Of Defense Spending, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
This report was meant to determine what the economic impact of Department of Defense cutbacks would have been on local communities in Western Massachusetts. This project provided a methodology to determine what these local impacts were. The plan was to have policy makers use this data to create strategies which may ease the effects of defense spending cutbacks on their communities.
A Comparative Analysis Fire, Police, And Public Works Departments Pelham, Massachusetts, Center For Economic Development
A Comparative Analysis Fire, Police, And Public Works Departments Pelham, Massachusetts, Center For Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
In an ongoing effort to evaluate the effectiveness of its operations, the Town of Pelham engaged the services of the Center for Economic Development (CED) at the University of Massachusetts to examine the Highway (DPW), Police and Fire departments.
To that end, CED produced a detailed matrix comparing Pelham's three departments with those of three other communities; contacted professional and government organizations for potentially useful trends and researched additional information requested by the town. Herewith are the results of these efforts.
It was agreed that a comparative analysis of an extensive list of descriptive characteristics between Pelham's and three other …