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Among the measures, Arkansas voters voted to make a temporary transportation sales tax permanent and Arizona voters raised income taxes on high earners.

The Conference Board's Employment Trends Index (ETI) gained to 97.57 in October from 96.33 in September, but remains 11.1% lower than a year ago, the group announced Monday.

Opening a bank or investment account — or even securing employment in a racism-free workplace — is out of reach for many Black Americans.

The 10 award winners are finalists for the national Deal of the Year Award, which will be announced at a virtual event on Dec. 16.

Daily report for November 09, 2020.

The former vice president spearheaded the Obama administration’s implementation of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

S&P Global Ratings downgrades the Garden State's general obligation bonds one notch to BBB-plus from A-minus.

As the week drew to a close, municipal bond market participants looked ahead to a smaller-than-usual supply slate dominated by revenue bond deals.

Democratic control of the Senate is considered crucial to many of the public finance sector’s priorities, although some muni groups are optimistic about 2021 with either party in the majority.

The October employment report was stronger than predicted, with a 638,000 rise in nonfarm payrolls and a full percentage point decline in the unemployment rate, suggesting the economy continues to improve despite the rise in the number of COVID-19 cases.

Daily report for November 06, 2020.

To little surprise, the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged. Refinitiv Lipper reported tax-exempt muni bond funds lost about $954 million.

TMI Trust agreed to a settlement that allows bondholders to be paid interest during the Chapter 11 case of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans.

Moody's deemed both the likely passage of San Francisco Unified School District's parcel tax and Los Angeles USD's $7 billion bond measure credit positives.

A change in status would have both upsides and downsides for the island territory.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker says preservation of the investment-grade status is "very important;" Illinois bonds traded wider after the income tax referendum failed.

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari isn’t attending the central bank’s two-day policy meeting after the birth of his second child this week.

As wildfires become more frequent and intense the reliability of state governments and FEMA to support affected local governments may change.

Lynne Funk and Gary Siegel discuss how the election results will affect the municipal market, how the Fed moves forward and some winners and losers with bond ballot measure results and muni advocates who held onto their seats in Congress. (21 minutes).

Biden’s Electoral College count rose to 264, one state away from achieving the 270, according to the Associated Press, which called the former vice president the winner Wednesday in closely fought races in Wisconsin and Michigan.