January 2008 Posts

Illinois taxpayers may soon be asked to make real-estate billionaire Sam Zell even richer. As part of his takeover of the Chicago Tribune, Zell is trying to unload the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field, which the Tribune Company currently owns.

Here at Good Jobs First we’re happy to see that a book dealing with business subsidy abuse is currently Number 8 on both the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list and the

Since Google owns Blogspot, what better way to launch our blog than to remind readers that Google, its “do no evil” slogan notwithstanding, is in the business of pitting states against each other to see who will give the biggest subsidies.