Job Quality Standards

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.

Fallout from Hurricane Sandy and this month’s tragic boardwalk fire are not the only costs that New Jersey taxpayers will face in the coming years

This week our friends at OSPIRG scored another major win

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[caption id="attachment_2890" align="alignleft" width="300"] Boat meets Metro-North Railroad in Westchester County, Photo credit: MTA Phot

Washington, DC, October 10, 2012 -- Good Jobs First today released an updated version of its model state legislation to make economic development subsidy programs more accountable and effective. It can be found at: http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/accountable-development/model-legislation

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