After 1933, new sales taxes and infusions of federal money helped relieve the fiscal distress.

The governor's staff members said his answers to the state's fiscal distress would come in the budget address next month.

For their part, states, in fiscal distress themselves, need every dollar they can find.

But factors much more directly within the Mayor's control also contributed to the current fiscal distress.

Those restrictions and California's own fiscal distress will also make digging out of the hole that much more difficult.

"This county is still in a state of fiscal distress."

He noted that 46 other states were in similar fiscal distress.

Q. How would the commission handle it if one of the member's towns got into fiscal distress?

By that measure, the current fiscal distress is relatively tame, several budget experts said.

Outlays by state and local government, where fiscal distress has been acute, were flat.