September 2011 Posts
N.Y. Chip-Fab Deal Emits New Stench
Kudos to Glen Falls Post Star columnist Will Doolittle for his tart September 22 column exposing that “Water stinks...
Now Showing! Subsidized Interstate Job-Sprawl from Kansas City
AMC Entertainment Inc. recently announced it will take a subsidy package from Kansas worth more than $40 million to run away with 450 headquarters jobs from downtown Kansas City, Missouri to the affluent Kansas suburb of Leawood (median income almost two and a half times the state average and home values more than three times the state average) in hyper-growth Johnson County.
Tennessee Goes Clawback-Free for Electrolux
In an extraordinary investigative report this week, The [Memphis] Commercial Appeal discovered that the state of Tennessee promised Electrolux much more in subsides than it officially announced and that the offer came with an explicit “no clawback or recapture” provision. The n
Teamsters Protest Uncle Sam Paying Peter to Rob Paul
Should federal economic development dollars be used to subsidize the flight of jobs from one labor market (or state) to another?
Of course not! But members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) in Brisbane, California are blowing the whistle on just such a scandal.
Subsidy Tracker Completes Online Data Capture
Subsidy Tracker, the Good Jobs First database of company-specific information on economic