Posts Tagged Smart Growth
2014: A Landmark Year for Subsidy Accountability
Two-thousand fourteen was a banner year for our movement, hands down. The first move to require standardized subsidy-cost reporting! The first half of a legally-binding two-state cease fire deal! The first state ban on tax-break commissions! A big surge found in state disclosure of subsidies! Big improvements to our Subsidy Tracker, enabling first-ever mash-ups!
$2.6 Billion Spent on Cleaning Up DC Rivers Must Address Local Job Creation
Colorado Stock Show Wants Bucks to Sprawl
The Recovery Act: The Transparency Gift that Keeps on Giving
Largely lost in the partisan bickering over the stimulus has been the law's enormous positive impact on improving government transparency. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) is not just the most transparent federal spending bill in U.S. history—the changes it pioneered will endure even after the stimulus winds down.
Mapping Job Subsidies: Becoming Easier in More States
As those who follow Good Jobs First know, since 2000 we have issued several studies mapping the geographic distribution of company-specific economic development subsidy deals—and then analyzing them for their pro-sprawl bias.