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Financing Agricultural Research and Education in a Period of Tight Budgets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

William P. Flatt*
Affiliation:
University of Georgia

Extract

This article, heralding the new year, clearly indicated that 1983 would be a period of tight budgets in virtually every state. A survey of 25 state capitals revealed that state revenues have been steadily declining. Policy Reports, a new bimonthly publication, surveyed the 16 states where newly elected governors will be inaugurated in January, 1983, and found that none had advocated a tax increase.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1983

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