7/18/09

Philadelphia

The government of the nation's sixth most-populous city


 has stopped paying its vendors and suppliers


citing a cash crisis


 


The city will delay spending on anything


 other than payroll, debt service and emergencies


until passage in Harrisburg of a state budget


and laws related to the sales-tax and pension proposals


 


The city has about $197 million in funds


and with the suspension of vendor payments


that money should last through the end of September


 


Philadelphia Halts Payments in Crunch


Peter Loftus


Wall Street Journal, July 18, 2009

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