Add to ORKGMaine 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 analyzing responses to the 2007–2011 Maine Municipal Association fiscal sur...
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In recent years funding for Maine K-12 education has been a source of almost constant dissension. As...
While municipal bankruptcy as a whole is rare in the United States, since the Great Recession, fisca...
This article examines the asymmetry in local government responses to economic-cycle-based changes of...
Despite recent reforms to Maine’s school funding, State Senator Peter Mills argues that the formula ...
The Great Recession of 2008-2010 is showing that the states and national government have spent too m...
This study seeks to assess Scarborough’s fiscal and budgetary position within a comparative framewor...
Maine’s 77 “service center” municipalities account for a large proportion of all the state’s consume...
On November 2, 2004, Maine residents will vote on whether to “limit property taxes to 1% of the asse...
"During the recent recession, local governments struggled to manage budgets as revenues dropped. Bec...
The budget difficulties faced by Maine and by most other states have prompted a national search for ...
In January 2005, a law was passed that was supposed to cut property taxes and reduce government spen...
State grants are perceived to mitigate the fiscal disparities among local governments in providing s...
Theories of fiscal federalism argue a decentralized system of governance increases efficiency becaus...
The distribution of unrestricted municipal aid has been a major policy concern in many states. Using...
This article examines the fiscal challenges Illinois municipalities faced following the 2009 recess...
In recent years funding for Maine K-12 education has been a source of almost constant dissension. As...
While municipal bankruptcy as a whole is rare in the United States, since the Great Recession, fisca...
This article examines the asymmetry in local government responses to economic-cycle-based changes of...
Despite recent reforms to Maine’s school funding, State Senator Peter Mills argues that the formula ...
The Great Recession of 2008-2010 is showing that the states and national government have spent too m...
This study seeks to assess Scarborough’s fiscal and budgetary position within a comparative framewor...
Maine’s 77 “service center” municipalities account for a large proportion of all the state’s consume...
On November 2, 2004, Maine residents will vote on whether to “limit property taxes to 1% of the asse...
"During the recent recession, local governments struggled to manage budgets as revenues dropped. Bec...
The budget difficulties faced by Maine and by most other states have prompted a national search for ...
In January 2005, a law was passed that was supposed to cut property taxes and reduce government spen...
State grants are perceived to mitigate the fiscal disparities among local governments in providing s...
Theories of fiscal federalism argue a decentralized system of governance increases efficiency becaus...
The distribution of unrestricted municipal aid has been a major policy concern in many states. Using...
This article examines the fiscal challenges Illinois municipalities faced following the 2009 recess...
In recent years funding for Maine K-12 education has been a source of almost constant dissension. As...
While municipal bankruptcy as a whole is rare in the United States, since the Great Recession, fisca...