local government

The whole calculus can change if the local government backs a company’s departure, experts said.

“Many of the students are going to state and local governments, nonprofits, and think tanks, but increasingly don’t see the federal government as a place where they can make a difference or make a career.”

A 2016 study External link by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine estimated the average immigrant contributes a net present value of $259,000 to federal, state, and local governments.

The matter was complicated by Proposition 218, a 1996 statewide ballot measure designed to make it harder for local governments to raise taxes and fees.

I went to West Sussex County Council to interview one of few people in local government prepared to talk to me on the record about Send funding.