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Telework is here to stay, but what does that mean for wage tax revenue?

It’s been two years, now, since local businesses shuttered their office doors and sent employees home with laptops to telework from their living rooms—forced to do so by pandemic-induced stay-at-home-orders. It’s still unclear what the long-term impact of this novel digital-first economy will have on government tax revenue streams. Commuter-driven revenue, such as sales tax […]

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Balancing pre- and post-COVID municipal planning strategies

The pandemic is the biggest challenge to face municipal planners in living memory. Even in the rosiest of times, keeping a municipality running effectively and meeting a community’s needs requires careful planning and diligent execution. Now, with the added stresses and dangers of COVID, that work has become exponentially harder. Although municipal planning has become […]

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Employment challenges highlighted in American City & County retention survey

Over December, at least nine states saw a jump in their number of available job openings, with most of the rest holding steady at lower-than-normal levels, according to the latest employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It’s the continuation of an employment trend that’s fundamentally shifted the labor market, prompting employees to reconsider what […]

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Global sustainability network helps local governments share green procurement practices

ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability is a large global network of local cities, counties and other regional or public agencies devoted to solving the world’s sustainability challenges. The group offers standards, tools and programs that can help communities reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve lives and livelihoods and protect natural resources. The group has local […]

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States can reduce the cost of tax compliance for businesses with uniformity and tech

Whether it is changing consumer behavior or the 2018 Supreme Court decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair Inc., sales tax compliance has become increasingly complex for businesses in the last few years. All 45 states with sales tax require remote sellers to collect sales tax, while at the same time, ecommerce sales have skyrocketed—reaching $861.12 […]

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10 states where employers are struggling to hire

Millions of Americans have lost their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic, but now, it’s employers that are struggling to find workers, leading to reduced business hours, delays in services. The pandemic has caused people to reflect on what they want to do, and what they don’t want to do anymore. Americans are quitting their jobs […]

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Assessing cyber readiness—Where to begin?

Cities and counties are about to partake in the nation’s first and largest cybersecurity funding program to help local governments. President Biden’s infrastructure spending bill signed into law in late 2021 focuses on improving cybersecurity by creating a grant program with $1 billion of funding through fiscal year 2025 designed to enhance jurisdictions’ security postures. […]

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How the U.S. will deploy intelligent transit networks that enable connected vehicles

While America’s transportation infrastructure continues to be one of the country’s greatest historical accomplishments, as well as the lifeblood of the American economy, the system itself continues to have serious challenges during the last two decades. This is mainly due to the rise in traffic congestion that has ensnarled hundreds of cities across the country. […]

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Cooperative agreements can be a timesaver as public procurement workloads increase

No question, the COVID-19 pandemic has boosted public procurement workloads, says Ian Coyle, county administrator in Livingston County, N.Y. Coyle serves as chief administrative, budget and procurement officer for the county (population 65,000), which is in the Rochester, N.Y., metro area of the Empire State. “The pandemic has affected all elements of local government operations. […]

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The data-intensive workplace of the future

Like a 100-year flood that, upon receding, reveals a redrawn landscape, COVID-19 is remaking the way government agencies pursue their missions. The pandemic has “impacted the nature” of public sector jobs, according to 76 percent of more than 1,200 state and local government employees surveyed last year by MissionSquare Research Institute. Among them, 31 percent […]

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Telework is here to stay, but what does that mean for wage tax revenue?

Article

Balancing pre- and post-COVID municipal planning strategies

News

Employment challenges highlighted in American City & County retention survey

Article

Global sustainability network helps local governments share green procurement practices

Article

States can reduce the cost of tax compliance for businesses with uniformity and tech

Gallery

10 states where employers are struggling to hire

Article

Assessing cyber readiness—Where to begin?

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How the U.S. will deploy intelligent transit networks that enable connected vehicles

Article

Cooperative agreements can be a timesaver as public procurement workloads increase

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The data-intensive workplace of the future

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