The American Rescue Plan’s State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds became law five years ago. It’s a program that provided funding directly to communities of all sizes across the country. At the time, pandemic-driven revenue shortfalls were threatening widespread municipal layoffs, service cuts, and there were serious concerns that we were headed into another 2008-style recession. Guest host, Irma Esparza Diggs, Senior Executive and Director, Federal Advocacy at National League of Cities, discusses the historic impacts of ARPA with Mike Fina, Oklahoma Municipal League Director; Dan Gilmartin, Michigan Municipal League Director; and Todd Glover, Municipal Association of South Carolina Director.
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