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Dawnbreaker Vol 60 No 1 (Fall 2013), Dawnbreaker Staff
Dawnbreaker Vol 60 No 1 (Fall 2013), Dawnbreaker Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
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Dawnbreaker Vol 61 No 3 (Spring-2013), Dawnbreaker Staff
Dawnbreaker Vol 61 No 3 (Spring-2013), Dawnbreaker Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
The Impact Of Post-Recession State Revenue Reductions On Maine's Municipalities, Emily Shaw
The Impact Of Post-Recession State Revenue Reductions On Maine's Municipalities, Emily Shaw
Maine Policy Review
Maine municipalities have received substantially less revenue from the state over the past several years, due to a combination of financial pressures on state budgets and state administrative policy preferences. The result is that municipalities have been forced to restructure the provision and funding of local services through a combination of reducing spending in some categories, raising additional money from residents and other users of town services, or taking on additional municipal debt. However, on average, Maine’s municipalities have so far been unable to reduce their total spending. This discussion of municipal responses to reduced state revenue is based on …