January 2012 Posts
PIRG Releases Report on TIF in Chicago as 3 Major Companies Return $34 million to Taxpayers
Mapping Job Subsidies: Nearly 2,000 New Deals Ready for Mapping
As states increasingly bring economic development deals into the sunlight, they are increasingly also doing so i
Let's Attach "Green Strings" to Subsidies
The old plant-closing activist in me sat stunned tonight as President Obama must have set a record for the number of times the word "manufacturing" appeared in a State of The Union address.
One passage of his speech especially grabbed my attention: when the President suggested a new tax break to encourage manufacturers to retrofit and modernize to reduce their energy costs.
Let's Attach "Green Strings" to Subsidies
The old plant-closing activist in me sat stunned tonight as President Obama must have set a record for the number of times the word "manufacturing" appeared in a State of The Union address.
One passage of his speech especially grabbed my attention: when the President suggested a new tax break to encourage manufacturers to retrofit and modernize to reduce their energy costs.
Subsidy Tracker Extends Its Reach
Subsidy Tracker, the Good Jobs First database of company-specific information on state and local economic development subsidies, has extended its geographic reac