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Are States Obsolete?

For Release Sunday, July 12, 2009
© 2009 Washington Post Writers Group
Quarrelsome, politically hamstrung, dancing on the edge of bankruptcy: are America’s state governments becoming obsolete?
Ten states reached the end of their fiscal year June 30, deadlocked over how to deal with deficits. Illinois, for example, had a $11.8 billion shortfall, Connecticut $8.8 billion, [...]