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Excerpt from The Near Side of Federalism: Improving State and Local Government
N the nation entered the 19705, the abili ties oi the states and localities to carry out their traditional functions were under severe and increasing strain. Some cities, school districts, and other units of government were literally in danger of bankruptcy; states were cutting back urgent social programs; and the question of shar ing Federal revenues with states and localities rose closer to the top of the political agenda. But these circumstances had been fore shadowed for at least two decades. Soon after Dwight D. Eisenhower became President in 1953, he appointed a prestigious advisory com mission to study the allocation of the domestic functions of government, with the aim of return ing many of them to states or localities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
