“The Golden State remains a center of robust innovation and is leading the nation in job growth.” — Gov. Jerry Brown The American city is in peril. Since 2008, America has experienced abnormally high unemployment rates, foreclosures and bankruptcies due to dramatic shifts in the economy, among other reasons. America‘s recovering, but according to CNN, only 96,000 new jobs were added in August. Many county, municipal, town, and township governments, etc., which comprise about 89,500 local governmental “units” nationwide (Source: U.S. Census), must struggle with the question of who gets what, when, and how in a troubled economy. Pitifully low …