State-Level Economic Policy: Brain Drain, Tax Reform, and Trade Deals

Multiple state-level developments: Illinois signs trade agreement with Indonesia ($1.7B bilateral trade, soybean exports); Michigan budget cuts eliminate MI-TF1 disaster response team due to $1B shortfall; Wisconsin brain drain (14.6% college attainment gap); Kansas boosting trade with Czech Republic; St. Cloud (FL) preemptively slashing budgets ahead of property tax reform; Tennessee budget reliance on federal funds; Massachusetts economic development bills; Pennsylvania election-year budget speed. States filling federal trade policy gaps and adapting to fiscal pressures.