Hey there,I need to summarize this article to understand better, if u can summarize for me in 250 to 300 words. Please.Thanks.State and local tax revenue has nearly snapped back to the peak hit several years ago—a gain attributed to a reviving economy and tax increases implemented during the recession.But the improvement masks deeper problems for state and local governments that are likely to linger for years. To weather the recession, state governments relied on now-depleted federal stimulus funds, which allowed them to put off painful cuts that would have otherwise been necessary to balance budgets. Meanwhile, demand for government services and the tab for public-worker pensions and health care have continued to grow.Total tax receipts for state and local governments hit $1.29 trillion in 2010, just 2.3% shy of the $1.32 trillion taken in during 2008, not adjusted for inflation, according to Census Bureau data.Peak tax revenue was reached during the first year of the recent recession, which began in December 2007, due to the usual lag between the time a downturn hits and when it is reflected in tax receipts.Part of the upturn in state revenue can be traced to tax increases imposed during the recession. For 2010, tax hikes boosted state revenue by $12.3 billion, about 2%, according to the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government.The latest tallies show a diverging trend in the fiscal health of state and local governments. While state tax revenue increased every quarter of 2010, including a 6.7% jump in the fourth period compared with a year earlier, local tax revenue fell in the first and fourth quarters—in part because of slumping real-estate tax receipts.While states are primarily funded by sales and income taxes—which tend to grow along with an expanding economy—the nation’s 89,000 cities, school districts and other local governments depend heavily on property taxes.It typically takes a few years for falling housing prices to show up in property-tax receipts, and the latest Census figures suggest that is now happening.Local “governments are still very much in the midst of the downturn and are likely to have a couple of tough years ahead,” says Chris Hoene, director of research for the National League of Cities, adding that local governments will struggle until there is a rebound in housing markets.For states, an improving revenue picture might seem surprising, given the big budget deficits in the coming fiscal year. State income-tax revenue jumped 10.9% in the fourth quarter of 2010 compared with a year ago, as Americans’ healthier incomes and stock-market gains translated to higher income-tax payments. Sales taxes grew 1.9% over the period, according to the Census.While state finances are improving, their current fiscal woes largely reflect lingering problems that have yet to be resolved. For decades, the cost of state and local government has risen faster than overall inflation, in part because of pension and health-care promises governments made to their employees.”States and localities will face continued pressure on their finances as they struggle to pay the cost of promises already made,” says Don Boyd, a senior fellow at the Rockefeller Institute. “This will be hard to explain to taxpayers who see that the cyclical part of their problem is improving.”WSJ’s Conor Dougherty and Mitra Kalita visit the News Hub to discuss state-level revenues seeing a rebound, but local revenues weighed down by a sluggish housing market. January housing sales figures ignited fresh fears of a double-dip recession.Meanwhile, in the 2012 fiscal year that starts in July, states will no longer have the roughly $150 billion in stimulus funds that over the past two years have been used to fill gaps in states’ budgets. That means governors and legislators are just now considering cuts that, but for the stimulus, would have been made years ago.State and local fiscal burdens cast a cloud over an otherwise improving economy and job market. Concerns about governments’ ability to get their fiscal houses in order have roiled the municipal-bond market, raising borrowing costs for many cities and in the process impeding their ability to spend on things like new roads or sewers.At the same time, budget crunches have prompted widespread layoffs, especially at the local level.In the 12 months ended in February, state and local governments shed 241,000 jobs, compared with an overall national gain of 1,269,000 in nonfarm jobs.The growing stress on local governments is likely to put more pressure on state budgets, even as states’ own revenues improve. State and local finances are intertwined, with states paying for many local services. Also, cities’ fiscal woes can raise doubts among bond investors about a state’s fiscal health.Local fiscal stress has prompted states including Michigan and California to seek more oversight of municipal finances. Michigan is training “emergency financial managers” to advise its cities.In California, the state controller is seeking greater power to audit cities’ finances. I really need to review the summary by tonight by 10pm. If you can do this at least by 10 pm, I am willing to pay $20.Thanks

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Hey, these are my excel files and i am sending the questions that i used to answer the excel spreadsheet but i need to make managerial report 3 pages each cases. The tutor i got earlier that i gave my assignment couple days ago but he didn’t finish so please please finish this by today it was due yesterday i got extension for just today!!

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Hey, this question is related to test-statistics

I’m having trouble understanding how to find a critical value when given an alpha and a degrees of freedom, using the table (and when h0 is true). I think I just don’t understand how to look for the critical value.

For instance, with a df of 5 and an alpha of 0,01, why is the critical number 4.032? Why do we look under the alpha of 0,05 to find the value, I thought we were supposed to look at the value under the alpha 0,01?

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Attached is an essay paper on advertisement. Can you proofreading my paper. It is about a advertisement of cigarette and i cannot dwell on the harm of cigarette only what is in the ads. It would be great if you can let me know if my topic is link back to the thesis statement and if i went off topic. Looking forward for you input

“Don’t tell me how good you make it; tell me how good it makes me when I use it” (Leo Burnett). Advertisements can strongly influence people’s lives and it often goes unnoticed. Whether it is on television, in magazines, or on billboards, advertisements persuade people one way or the other. It is not until one feels the pressure of withdrawal from the product, they realize the impact it has on their lives. This advertisement has three basic faults: the picture and word not saying the same thing, the large print is contradicting the smaller print and dishonesty

This advertisement used two adjectives in larger print – BOLD CHOICE because they want it to stand out to the customers and it is convincing them to buy a product. While the smaller print put the customers in a put off mood. They want to buy the product that will make them feel satisfied. With the Surgeon General’s warning in smaller print put them on the edge and that is one of the reasons why it is less noticeable. However, without the text and the box it would be hard to know what is being advertised. The picture is advertising a young couple on their way to Las Vegas to either gamble, party and have fun. They pull to the side of the road can indicate a few things. They can be resting during a long drive and decide to smoke a cigarette while doing so or maybe they are waiting for friends to meet with them along the way. In this advertisement they make it seem like taking a road trip to Las Vegas always involved smoking once you pull off the highway. Therefore, the picture and words should be saying the same thing, whether if the words or picture remove from the advertisement and in this case, they are contradicting each other.

The name of the company already exists, and they used it to promote another brand of cigarette. The large print is appealing and encourage new customers and maintaining their current customers. The medium print is to reinforce the main object which is the company- Winston, that is selling the product and the linkage between customer and product. They already make a name for themselves and to convince the customer they must make them feel that they are the best out there.  On the other hand, the smaller print is not saying the same thing as the large or medium prints. This is where the scary stuff is the do’s and the do not. With the Surgeon General Warning, it is telling the customers what will happen when they take the product and the side effect of this product. For example, what if a person wants to start a family in the future and they see this warning they would think twice about the effect it will have on them later. One print is saying bold choice and the other is giving you a warning, which side should you be on where you would find the truth in this advertisement.

Naturally smooth lured customers to think that these cigarettes are safer than regular cigarettes. They use mostly black, red and yellow colors to give an implication that it is enhancing and that the consumer is getting a bargain. Natural has to do with something that is real and there is nothing real in a cigarette- it is a chemical. This advertisement target Millennials, to promote cigarette selling. Seeing a younger age group doing it make it easier for customers to buy that product and it seems fun and exciting. Once they convince that age group they will grow with the product and when they realized the lies that are sold to them and it is not near the truth and by that time it will be too late.

In conclusion, advertisements should be something that a customer can rely on and in this advertisement, it is the opposite of what’s being advertised. An Advertisement can convince a customer to buy their product in ways that you cannot imagine. The picture can be selling the product and the word is discouraging the sale of the product. The large print is telling you a fantasy – bold choice, there is nothing bold in smoking a cigarette and the choice will impact you later. The smaller print is the closest this advertisement gets to the truth and it is contradicting each other and can be deceitful. Either way, they know what to advertise to make the customer come back for more.

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