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As cigarette sales shrink, so do tobacco settlement payouts to states   Leave a comment

Link: http://www.marketplace.org/2016/04/14/life/fewer-smokers-means-looming-defaults-state-bonds

Summary: In 2016 states collected over $25 billion from tobacco settlements. Marketplace looks at the  criticisms of how that money is  allocated and what states will do when that money runs out.

Original Air Date: April 15, 2016

Length: 6 minutes 59 seconds

Posted October 9, 2017 by cherokeebelval in Finance, Fiscal Policy, Politics & economics, Taxes

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