Municipal Governance

Podcasts June 27, 2024 Special Briefing: State Tax Breaks On this episode of Special Briefing, experts discuss the latest Volcker Alliance issue paper, Benefit or Burden: Evaluating $1 Trillion in State Tax Expenditures. Susan Wachter William Glasgall Matt Fabian Jonathan Ball Arlene Martinez Tim Bartik State & Local Finance
Jun 27 2024 Past Event Special Briefing: State Tax Breaks State & Local Finance
Publication June 26, 2024 Reflections on Doom Loop or Boom Loop Work from Home and the Challenges Facing America’s Big Cities Richard Voith David Stanek Susan Wachter State & Local Finance
Article April 18, 2024 Mr. Terrell Goes to Washington: Penn IUR Undergraduate Fellow Visits DC Timethius Terrell (C’24), shares his experience traveling to Washington, D.C. for a daylong trip to meet policymakers and urban policy experts as part of the Penn IUR Fellows in Urban Leadership program. Anchor Institutions
Apr 05 2024 Past Event Innovating for Urban Resilience: 19th Annual Urban Leadership Forum Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development
Mar 28 2024 Past Event Special Briefing: America's Hot Growth States State & Local Finance
Feb 28 2024 Past Event Special Briefing: State Tax Cuts State & Local Finance
Jan 25 2024 Past Event Special Briefing: 2024 Fiscal Outlook for States and Cities State & Local Finance
Nov 30 2023 Past Event Special Briefing: Public Pensions - Still a Crisis? State & Local Finance
Oct 19 2023 Past Event Special Briefing: Rolling Out the $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act—What’s Being Built and What’s in the Pipeline State & Local Finance
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Fellow Anne Fadullon
Founding Principal, MAKE Advisory Services, LLC
Urban Development Housing + 1
Sep 21 2023 Past Event Special Briefing: Recession? Soft Landing? . . . Impact on States and Cities State & Local Finance
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Affiliated PhD Student Rachel Bondra
Fellow in the Initiative in the History of the Built Environment Doctoral Student in City and Regional Planning
Urban Development
Jul 27 2023 Past Event Special Briefing: The Future of Mass Transportation as US Pandemic Aid Nears an End State & Local Finance Urban Development
Publication June 20, 2023 Policy Brief: Can Courts Resolve the Trilemma? State & Local Finance Anchor Institutions
Podcasts June 15, 2023 Special Briefing: The Debt Ceiling Deal and its Impact on the US Economy, States, and Municipalities The Volcker Alliance and Penn Institute for Urban Research hosted an online Special Briefing on fallout for the US economy, states, and municipalities from the recent deal to raise the federal debt ceiling.  William Glasgall Susan Wachter Matt Fabian Marcia Howard Annie Linskey Vikram Rai Torsten Slok State & Local Finance
Jun 15 2023 Past Event Special Briefing: The Debt Ceiling Deal and its Impact on the U.S. Economy, States, and Municipalities State & Local Finance
Scholar David Schleicher
Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Podcasts May 18, 2023 Special Briefing: Avoiding Municipal Distress The Volcker Alliance and Penn Institute for Urban Research invite you to join an online Special Briefing on avoiding municipal distress. While the US unemployment rate is near a record low and $5 trillion in federal pandemic aid continuing to support the economy, American cities are enjoying healthy budget surpluses as COVID-19 recedes. But many of the underlying contributors to municipal distress and bankruptcy in the 2010s—underfunded pensions, deteriorating infrastructure, and population loss among them—still pose threats to many cities’ long-term fiscal health. Susan Wachter William Glasgall Richard Ratvich Stephanie A. Miner David N. Schleicher Rob Dubow Heather Gillers State & Local Finance
May 18 2023 Past Event Special Briefing: Avoiding Municipal Distress State & Local Finance

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