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Jobs, jobs, jobs -- and the taxes they bring -- that's what will save states' budgets, a national legislative convention was told Tuesday.
And in connection with that develop-jobs mantra of business leaders and economists, the National Conference of State Legislatures released a new report Tuesday showing states' budgets are looking a lot better nowadays, coming back from the desperate revenue shortfalls of 2001, 2002 and 2003.See the full content of this document
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States' Budgets Looking Brighter
Unemployment in the United States stands today at 5.6 percent, the historic average of the past 50 years, David Wyss, chief economist for Standard & Poors, told the NCSL's opening main session in the Salt Palace.
And the latest downturn's unemployment peak, 6.2 ...See the full content of this document
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