Harrisburg Hoping God Can Help Balance the Books – (CNBC – June 21, 2011)<\/a>
\nIf all the brightest minds in Harrisburg’s government can’t solve the city’s financial problems, maybe God can. That seems to be the thinking in Pennsylvania’s capital city, where Mayor Linda Thompson and a host of other religious leaders are about to embark on a three-day fast and prayer campaign to cure the city’s daunting money woes. But judging by its financial picture, the city of 49,000 in the central part of the Keystone State may not even have a prayer. According to a recent report from the state’s Department of Community and Economic Development, “The City of Harrisburg is facing a direct, immediate and grave financial crisis.” The DCED wrote in a 422-page analysis of the government’s perilous condition, “The financial crisis is so severe that the City teeters uncomfortably on the verge of bankruptcy that could be triggered at any moment by parties outside its control.”<\/p>\n
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