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Sonics flee Seattle, while DC residents get to work on new stadium
Professional sports stadiums are a bad public investment, according to a federal court brief filed by the Seattle SuperSonics.
Costly Business Tax Break Fails to Check Illinois Manufacturing Job Loss– Again
In a move reminiscent of Maytag’s 2002 decision to close its Galesburg, Illinois plant and transfer jobs to Mexico, Methode Electronics has announced it will close one of its three Illinois plants and eliminate a product line at another.
Is Bridgestone Driving Akron to Provide the Kind of Subsidy Deal Given to Goodyear?
The tire industry in Akron, Ohio—traditionally known as the rubber capital of the world—is a shadow of its former self. And now Bridgestone Firestone is threatening to relocate its 600-person technical center to Tennessee unless the city comes across with a juicy subsidy deal.
TIF, Greenfields, & Sprawl
Good Jobs First today released a new in-depth article about the nation’s most controversial kind of economic development subsidy – “TIF, Greenfields, and Sprawl” – just published in Planning and Environmental Law, a journal of the American Planning Association.
See it on our website