Care about State Coffers? Support the Census!

3/11/2010 9:00:00 AM By E.J. Reedy
States are in bad fiscal shape.  Horrible, actually.  And as such, entrepreneurship and innovation support programs are likely to be facing tough fiscal environments for years to come.  While a recent Wall Street Journal article highlights many of the things that states are doing to avoid scaring off businesses, I fear that law makers will focus most of their efforts on existing or small business (rather than new or growing businesses). 

While going from state budgets to the U.S. Census Bureau's decennial census might seem like a big leap, a new paper out of the Brookings Institution on the geographic distribution of funds resulting from the decennial census should call the attention of all organizations concerned with state funding environments to the need to support the decennial census.  This is crunch time for the decennial with surveys being mailed out this month.  I got a pre-survey mailing next week and can't wait to see the actual document! 


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