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Government Finance
Downtown Portland from the West Hills. (Photo courtesy Travis C. Peterson)
Government finance - where government gets its money and how it spends it - affects all Oregonians. The connections between state and local government revenues and state and local government services are important. This article introduces and provides a contextual explanation of in revenue sources and distribution.