Unlike funding connected to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which prioritizes project labor agreements and employing union labor on public projects, the money that flowed to state, local and tribal governments through the ARP had few strings attached to how recipients could spend it.
Since most states have a legal obligation to balance their budgets every year, surpluses like this are rare, the article points out, and state and community leaders have jumped on the opportunity to put it to use. Read the full summary here.
Since most states have a legal obligation to balance their budgets every year, surpluses like this are rare, the article points out, and state and community leaders have jumped on the opportunity to put it to use. Read the full summary here.
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