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National Study: Texas Has Above Average Needs, but Below Average Fiscal Effort

  

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Dick Lavine /(512) 320-0222 x 101

December 13, 2006

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A new national study, Measuring Fiscal Disparities Across the U.S. States, compares the revenue capacity and expenditure requirements of all 50 states and concludes that Texas has greater requirements for state and local spending than most other states, but makes less effort to raise the necessary revenue.