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Excerpt from Popular Government, Vol. 34: November, 1967 For example, a study of the 900 governments in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1960 indicated that of all local government expenditures: school districts spent about 40 per cent; counties spent about 33 per cent, cities spent about 20 per cent; and other special districts about 7 per cent. Large sums of state and federal aid (since greatly increased) were then going to counties and school districts to aid in meeting real urban problems that have to do with people, to say nothing of direct state expenditures an d federal aid through the state for the same purposes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.