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No more hand to mouth: what does a progressive funding system look like for local government?

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The system of local government, and its financing, could be delivered differently if new ways of thinking are adopted rather than just looking to previous arrangements, argue Kevin Muldoon-Smith, an associate professor at Northumbria University, and Mark Sandford, a local government specialist.

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