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Municipal Bond Credit Report: Unemployment in California will hit 18% this year and the state will grapple with a $54.3 billion hole in its budget caused by the coronavirus-induced recession,…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: House Democrats are putting the finishing touches on their next legislative response to the coronavirus pandemic, a package that will propose another massive round of aid…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: The nation’s bankruptcy industry is bracing for a wave of business collapses triggered by the coronavirus pandemic as its ranks have been thinned by a decade…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: Chicago Fed leader says rebound will depend on ‘the extent that policy makers, federal, state, local, are all better aligned on maintaining their own activities’.. Link…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: Weak investment returns, assumption changes, and low contributions combined to drive up the cumulative tab of unfunded liabilities for 11 Chicago-area local government pension funds in…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: Mounting deficits following an aggressive capital spending campaign drove New Jersey City University to the edge of junk status ahead of a $52 million revenue refunding…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: Massive stimulus to support the U.S. economy through the coronavirus crisis will cause the Treasury to borrow a record $3 trillion this quarter… Link to Story

Municipal Bond Credit Report: California has become the first state to borrow money from the federal government so it can continue paying out rising claims for unemployment benefits during the…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: The government response to the coronavirus has been a tale of 50 states as much as Washington, but most media attention focuses on the White House.…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: Chicago’s motor fuel bonds, the city’s park district, and Cook County suffered rating or outlook blows this week due to the strains posed by the COVID-19…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: Congressional Democrats are negotiating with Republicans for up to $1 trillion in state, county and local government aid in a CARES Act 2 bill that would…

Municipal Bond Credit Report: April’s employment report, to be released Friday, will almost certainly show that the coronavirus pandemic inflicted the largest one-month blow to the U.S. labor market on…