by Ellen D. Harpel | Jun 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
Managing economic development incentive programs is not easy. Here are five common mistakes we see in state and local incentive efforts across the country. 1. It is not clear what the incentive program is supposed to accomplish. Too many incentive programs are...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Feb 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
State and local governments have begun disclosing information about tax abatement agreements in their Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports (CAFRs) to comply with GASB 77.* Good Jobs First is tracking disclosed data on its website via Subsidy Tracker 2, a free and...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Dec 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
Incentives were big news in 2017. The popular conversation was dominated by coverage of the Foxconn investment in Wisconsin and Amazon’s RFP for its HQ2 site. Our readers followed these stories closely, but also continued to express interest in ways to use...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Nov 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
Economic development professionals and policymakers want to know which of their programs work best. However, a lack of data thwarts many state and local efforts to quantify incentive outcomes, hindering program evaluations. State administrative data that is already...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Sep 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
California recently launched the California Business Incentives Gateway (CBIG), which is striving to bring all of California’s state and local economic development programs and incentives together in a single access point. The objective is to create an Amazon.com-type...
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