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Governing Magazine

The time to begin building tomorrow’s workforce is now

For the first time since the Great Recession of the late 2000s, the fiscal position of the states is looking bright. The economy is growing more rapidly than anytime over the last decade, causing state revenues to rebound, and many states will see additional revenues as a result of last year's federal tax overhaul. But if there is one thing I've learned as an economist who led the National Governors Association for decades, it's that budgeting in good economic times can be much more difficult than in bad times.
Raymond Scheppach
Richmond Times Dispatch

Book review (nonfiction): 'The Age of Eisenhower'

Upon leaving the White House in 1961, Dwight D. Eisenhower, though revered as a war hero and admired as a man, was widely considered a president of meager achievement. More recently, historians have vigorously challenged that end-of-term conclusion. William I. Hitchcock, a professor of history at the University of Virginia and its Miller Center for Public Affairs, furthers the cause in his magisterial “The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s.”
William Hitchcock
USA Today

Trump's company wouldn't say what his new $107K business was, until after we tracked it down

Barbara Perry, Presidential Studies Director at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, said Trump is “an unprecedented president by virtually any yardstick,” including the connection between his personal brand and his public office. “He’s elected because he’s a businessman and an entrepreneur in the media business — and it’s all about name recognition and name branding,” she said. “He uses his presidency to increase that brand and the importance of that brand.”
Barbara Perry