{"id":31287,"date":"2012-03-10T23:08:19","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T23:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/deficits_push_new_york_cities_and_counties_to_desperation\/"},"modified":"2012-03-10T23:08:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T23:08:19","slug":"deficits_push_new_york_cities_and_counties_to_desperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31287","title":{"rendered":"Deficits Push New York Cities and Counties to Desperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was not a good week for New York\u2019s cities and counties.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Rockland County sent a delegation to Albany to ask for the authority to close its widening budget deficit by issuing bonds backed by a sales tax increase.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Suffolk County, one of the largest counties outside New York City, projected a $530 million deficit over a three-year period and declared a financial emergency. Its Long Island neighbor, Nassau County, is already so troubled that a state oversight board seized control of its finances last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/11\/nyregion\/deficits-push-municipalities-to-desperation.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was not a good week for New York\u2019s cities and counties. On Monday, Rockland County sent a delegation to Albany to ask for the authority to close its widening budget deficit by issuing bonds backed by a sales tax<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31287\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,615,149,151,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-city-government","category-economy","category-politics-in-general","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}