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The Puerto Rico Oversight Board recommended shifting federal funding to an earned income tax credit from welfare programs on the island.

Public finance guru Richard Ravitch analyzes the New York region’s transit crisis and compares it with the problems he faced when he oversaw the MTA in the late 1970s. Hosted by Paul Burton.

Revenue from proposed federal freight tax would supplement declining gas tax collections, ARTBA says.

Marion County and Indianapolis council approved the first $20 million in financing for a new criminal justice center.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether a municipal advisor for Babylon, N.Y. bond financings had a conflict of interest and violated his fiduciary duty by also owning a company that provided the town with workers.

One of Kevin O'Toole and Rick Cotton's priorities as chairman and executive director will be to restart the search for a chief executive officer.

Top-rated municipal bonds were mixed at mid-session, according to traders, who were seeing the first of the week’s big deals come to market, led by the Bay Area Toll Authority’s $1.4 billion deal.

The Treasury Department Tuesday auctioned $45 billion of four-week bills at a 0.990% high yield, a price of 99.923000.

After months of deliberation, standoffs and subsequent silence, the Rhode Island legislature has come to an agreement on a budget for fiscal 2018.

Construction spending was down 1.3% in June, with a 0.1% decline in private construction and a steep 5.4% drop in public construction, data released by the Commerce Department Tuesday morning showed.