Shortchanging Small Business: How Big Businesses Dominate State Economic Development Incentives

October 2015

By Greg LeRoy, Carolyn Fryberger, Kasia Tarczynska, Thomas Cafcas, Elizabeth Bird, and Philip Mattera

Governors and state legislators routinely praise small businesses for their contributions to economic growth and job creation, but states actually give big businesses the dominant share of their economic development incentive awards.

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