Posts Tagged Sprawl
Subsidized Job Flight in Ohio
Study: Companies Get Subsidies to Move, Mostly Leaving Hard-Hit Areas in Cleveland and Cincinnati Metro Areas
K.C. Business Leaders Demand Cease-Fire on Wasteful Job Poaching
In an incredibly rapid private-sector response to our April Fool’s Day gag about that wonderful 50-state jobs truce, 17 prominent Kansas City-area business executives issued a letter this week urging the governors of Missouri and Kansas to stop offering subsidies to companies that are jumping the state line
Colorado Proposal Would “STIF” Taxpayers
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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.
