Trends of Municipal Expenditures in Second Class Cities of Kentucky from 1926 to 1933

• Main Author: Taylor, Howard
• Format: Others
• Published: TopSCHOLAR® 1934
• Subjects: American Politics; Arts and Humanities; Economic History; Economics; History; Political History; Political Science; Regional Economics; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Social History; United States History
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2915; https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3910&context=theses

The increase of city expenditures was noticeable for the past two decades. During the depression there arose a greater demand on the part of both tax payers and city officials for some information concerning the costs of city government, what was responsible for the increase, for what municipal funds were expended, and where the cost of city government was headed. The question of how expenditures in certain departments compared with those of other departments was also a pertinent one. Education suffered an enormous reduction as compared to what had been spent from 1928 to 1932. There was a wide-spread belief that education has suffered the brunt of the retrenchment program. There is a cry that expenditures for education has been sacrificed for other functions of government. This study is an attempt to show how expenditures for each department compared with those of other departments, how the city tax dollar was distributed and how the trends of city expenditures compared with other economic trends.