The efficiency-equity trade-offs in public service delivery may be influenced by the dependency of local governments on their own resources rather than inter-governmental grants. School districts in the United States are expected both to produce human capital efficiently and to provide educational opportunity equally. To ascertain school district…

Fiscal federalism deals with the sharing of resources in a federated nation. Over the years problems about local government finance have become an important aspect of intergovernmental relations. Constitutionally, local government is the third tier of government which exists as an independent entity, possessing some degree of autonomy and…

Revenue sources and expenditures of county governments itemized in this report include national totals on county finances, county financial amounts, and percent distribution. Other subjects covered include expenditure by character and object, indebtedness and debt transactions, cash and security holdings, county utilities and liquor stores,…

Gathering of the reins of power in Washington is neither the most efficient nor an effective way to govern. (Author)

Revenue sharing is a new experiment in federal assistance to State and local agencies. The experience with general revenue sharing may be followed by a large-scale sharing of U.S. funds for public schools. It could become the most important federal aid program in recent history. (Author/JN)

The thrust of the act is to make available to units of local and state government a portion of those manpower training and public service employment funds that were formerly disbursed by the Department of Labor under a system of some 10,000 direct grants. (Author/JM)

Unlike typical Federal catergorical grants which are highly specific, General Revenue Sharing grants (GRS) are free of restrictions or conditions. The Missouri Advisory Committee, in viewing the impact of GRS on St. Louis City and County, received evidence regarding: (1) the nature of GRS-funded expenditures; (2) the limits of citizen…

The article prepares the ground for an investigation designed to trace the economic effects of intergovernmental transfers by examining the motivations for the expenditure behavior of local governments and anticipates local responses to revenue sharing, both general and special. (Author/NQ)

Exclusion of some forms of tax revenue and all forms of nontax revenue and support from measures of tax effort for allocating federal revenue sharing funds appears to introduce systematic bias against rural/nonmetropolitan local governments. Omitted tax revenues include those for schools and special districts (rural communitites raise…

Title I of Public Law 92-512, the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972, is popularly known as the Revenue Sharing Act. It provides for payments of approximately $30.2 billion to over 38,000 general units of governments, the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and approximately 350 Indian tribes and Alaskan native villages. Revenue…

Information of interest to Spanish speaking people on revenue sharing was presented in this booklet. Major topics were the utilization of General Revenue Sharing Funds, fund distribution, community action, reports on planned and actual use of funds, assurances to the Secretary of the Treasury, and civil rights provisions. Additional information on…

Describes how local area unemployment statistics are developed by state employment security agencies to provide the Bureau of Labor Statistics with data on the insured unemployed by county of residence. Includes a discussion of the handbook method, a consistent and uniform method of estimating total unemployment for states and areas. (Editor/TA)

There is always an inherent danger that public education may come to the point of extreme federal dependency as a result of revenue sharing. For this reason States must find another way of solving their basic, longrange problems of education financing independent of the federal bureaucracy. (Author/JN)