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To gauge city citizens’ top issues, the report likewise looked at U.S. Census and other information for the veryfirst time, report co-author states.
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Infrastructure is the leading concern of U.S. mayors for the 3rd year in a row, according to the 2023 State of the Cities report, launched in July by the National League of Cities.
After facilities, mayors are most focused on city spendingplans and public security, the yearly report states in its 10th version.
NLC bases the report on analysis of 37 speeches by mayors throughout the U.S. For the veryfirst time this year, the report likewise looked at U.S. Census and other information on which concerns are most essential to citizens, stated Farhad Omeyr, report co-author and program director of the NLC’s Center for Research and Data. “Looking at person beliefs, we understood that public security is the significant problem that they demand from their federalgovernments,” he stated.
Mayors’ years-long focus on facilities can mostlikely be chalked up to the enormous increase of federal financing from the 2021 bipartisan facilities law, Omeyr stated. “[Cities] have the cash to invest in their facilities, much-neglected facilities,” he stated. Prior to the facilities law, nevertheless, cities “didn’t have much cash to invest,” he stated, so mayors di