Quality Worthy Crossbow: A Thin Line: Economic Growth Or Corporate Welfare?

A Thin Line: Economic Growth Or Corporate Welfare?

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Enlarge Ricardo Azoury/iStockphoto. com In her series for The New York Times, reporter Louise Story says that the manufacturing sector — automakers, in particular — benefit the most from incentive packages. Ricardo Azoury/iStockphoto. com In her series for The New York Times, reporter Louise Story says that the manufacturing sector — automakers, in particular — benefit the most from incentive packages. In her new series for The New York Times called "The United States of Subsidies," investigative reporter Louise Story examines how states, counties and cities are giving up more than $80 billion each year in tax breaks and other financial incentives to lure companies or persuade them to stay put. The states and localities want jobs and economic growth; the companies want free land, free buildings, property tax abatement, "anything you can think of that would be financially beneficial," Story tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross.

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Louise Story

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0.193864	"anything you can think of that would be financially beneficial," Story tells ...
0	Story tells Gross, "I don't think you'll find a company out there that has not received financial incentives from local government."
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Terry Gross

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0.283384	"The beneficiaries come from virtually every corner of the corporate world," she writes ...
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PrintMedia: The New York Times

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