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Article: City officials to next Administration and Congress: make health care, transportation, education top priorities.(Report)
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- Nation's Cities Weekly
- Article date:
- December 22, 2008
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Skyrocketing healthcare costs, crumbling infrastructure and failing schools are taking their toll on local governments across the U.S. According to a new NLC survey of 365 city officials, seven in 10 report that the availability of affordable health care/services and quality of transportation infrastructure is a problem for their city. Healthcare, transportation and education top the list of issues that city officials feel are the most important for the next presidential Administration and Congress to address.
Additionally, in the wake of the economic crisis, more than six in 10 city officials are pessimistic about the general direction in which the country is ...
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