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The municipal government debt crisis

January 20, 2017

By John Nothdurft and Sheila Weinberg, from Jun 2013, includes "... For this project we analyzed the financial condition of 518 primary taxing districts within Cook County, the second-most populous county in the United States and home to the City of Chicago. ... Part 1 of this Policy Brief describes the government debt crisis that is spreading across the country, starting with the mounting national debt, then Illinois state government indebtedness, and finally Cook County and its municipal taxing jurisdictions. ..."

 
 
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