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Report: District of Columbia Job Subsidy Practices In Need of Improvement; Lag Behind Nearby Jurisdictions
Washington, DC—Despite the District of Columbia embracing four leading best practices, other basic economic development standards and safeguards remain absent.
Broadly, the District has four major shortfalls:
- failure to set job creation and job quality standards,
- lax reporting on project outcomes,
- failure to enforce existing standards, and
- the need for an online transparency database.
The report is available at:
http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/ABetterDealForTheDistrict
Despite such shortcomings, experience shows that the District can rapidly change course. For example, recent enhancements raised D.C.’s ranking on job subsidy transparency from dead last to 26th among the states in a 2014 Good Jobs First national report card study.
The Affordable Care Act's Employer Penalty Gap
Along with the scandalous number of the uninsured, one of the biggest healthcare outrages in the United States has been the ability of large companies employing low-wage workers to avoid providing decent group coverage, letting th
Subsidizing Union Avoidance at Wal-Mart and Nissan
Most Americans have been made to believe that they have no stake in private sector labor issues.
The Ongoing Economic Development Privatization Fiasco in Wisconsin
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker must decide what to do with the scandal-ridden Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC). Few options remain: ignore it, fix it, or declare it a failure.