Mounting State Debts Stoke Fears of a Looming Crisis - NYTimes.com

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Debt payments related to a failed incinerator, left, made Harrisburg, Pa., consider bankruptcy this year.

The State of Illinois is still paying off billions in bills that it got from schools and social service providers last year. Arizona recently stopped paying for certain organ transplants for people in its Medicaid program. States are releasing prisoners