Most states are doing a poor job tracking whether their tax breaks for businesses are actually spurring job growth, including some that have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into corporate incentive programs even while grappling with record deficits, according to a new report.

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The Hoover Dam, one of the world's great engineering feats, is marred by roads with traffic so jammed along the Nevada-Arizona border that it tells a different story about the political will to maintain 21st century infrastructure.

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State Rep. Brett Davis, R-Oregon, said Wednesday the recently released national report from the Pew Center on the States illustrates Wisconsin’s need for budget changes. The report, titled “Beyond California: States in Fiscal Peril,” analyzed state budgets all across America ...

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By JUDY LIN Associated Press Writer JUDY LIN,Associated Press Writer SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In Arizona, the budget has grown so gloomy that lawmakers are considering mortgaging Capitol buildings. In Michigan, state officials dealing with the nation’s highest unemployment rate ...

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