Joseph Coletti, John Locke Foundation senior fellow, discusses the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on local government budgets in North Carolina. Coletti offered these comments for a June 18, 2020, report on Spectrum News.
JLF’s Joseph Coletti discusses COVID-19’s impact on N.C. local government budgets
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