Focus on Finance
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Dispelling the Myth: Why State Tax Breaks for Businesses Do Not Spur Economic Growth
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A decline in the corporate tax rate enforced through state policy is found by a new study to be immaterial to investment decisions for businesses and therefore a non-factor for spurring economic growth within a state.
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Minimum Wage Increases: The Unintended Consequences
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Increases in minimum wages appear to help some poor families escape poverty while having the perverse effect of dragging other families below the poverty line.
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Focus on Finance: A Changing of the Guard in Boston
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Meredith Weenick discusses managing rising benefit obligations during a transition in leadership.
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Focus on Finance: Fort Worth’s Budget Balancing Act
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Fort Worth’s Assistant City Manager Susan Alanis discusses the role that city personnel, elected officials, and state funding play in the City’s finances.
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Policy Radio | City Controller Ronald Green on Houston’s Finances
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This week, Daniel O’Keefe talks with Controller Green about the financial issues facing the city of Houston.
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Focus on Finance: Funding the Future of Nashville
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Nashville’s Director of Finance Richard Riebeling discusses crafting sustainable cities through financing infrastructure, incentivizing tourism, and promoting fiscal transparency.
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Focus on Finance: A Great Incubator in Memphis
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Memphis Finance Director Brian Collins explains how his city’s problems are being met with innovative solutions from the public and private sectors.
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Policy Radio | Gayle Corrigan and Joseph Andriole on Labor-Management Relations
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This week, Daniel O’Keefe speaks with Gayle Corrigan and Joseph Andriole of Central Falls, RI on labor-management relations and how unions and city governments can work together through financial crises.
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Focus on Finance: The Restructuring of Detroit
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Detroit’s leading restructuring professional explains challenges in the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history.
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Focus on Finance: A Metropolis in the Desert
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Neal Young from the City of Phoenix talks about sustainable growth, transportation, solar energy, budgeting, and pensions in the nation’s Sunbelt.
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Focus on Finance: Bringing Private Sector Experience to Philadelphia
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The Treasurer for the City of Philadelphia, Nancy Winkler, discusses applying expertise from 28 years in financial consulting to reinvent the City’s financial fortunes.