In order to investigate how comparable to their white neighbors are black suburbanite perceptions of attitudes toward their new place of residence and its public schools and municipal government, data on black-white attitudes derived from an attitude survey conducted after school tax levy election in Spring 1973 were examined. (Author/JM)

This study evaluates the tax burden changes that occur as two local service functions, welfare and education, are shifted to State government financing. An analysis of alternative methods of such financing is undertaken, and the effects of these methods on the residents of the two central cities of Kansas City standard metropolitan statistical…