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India's new open door policy for foreign retailers is stirring a backlash from state governments who fear the move will be unpopular with their constituencies of small traders and shop owners.

Local and state governments, as well as some companies, are resorting to wage reductions, often to avoid layoffs.

Federal and state governments are missing a great opportunity to use the stimulus to aid the poor and minority communities hardest hit by the Great Recession

People with disabilities make valuable contributions at work -- if they are given the opportunity to do so. In the past decade, the federal government and many state governments have passed laws that give people with disabilities this opportunity.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement housed about 33,345 people per night in July at facilities across the country.

Most are owned by local and state governments. A look at the amounts paid per night for each immigrant at some of those facilities, according to public records:

The economic problems of American families have now rippled its way up to many state governments that are now slashing services in order to balance their budgets in one of the most difficult years in decades.