Editor's note: We told you recovery would be tough and long. In December more than 500 Public Works readers responded to our annual forecast survey. You told us: Operations and capital budgets are not yet growing, you're doing more with fewer people and losing institutional knowledge as baby boomers retire, and, as of press time, another federal shutdown is looming. Also, your ability to spend still very much depends on: 1. The impact of the slowly improving real estate market on property tax revenues; 2. The mixed bag of increasing consumer confidence and high levels of unemployment; and 3. Deep, across-the-board cuts in federal funding via the federal sequester.
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