Issue Position: Creating Jobs

Issue Position

Invest economic development funds on projects that actually create a large number of good jobs. States and cities give out millions (even billions) of dollars in incentives to attract or expand businesses, all too often with few jobs to show for it. We need to prioritize direct public spending on economic development that actually creates jobs for local residents like rebuilding our infrastructure, investing in transit, and greening our schools and public buildings. We also need standards to ensure that tax incentives or other public subsidies only go to companies that commit to hiring workers from the community and pay decent wages.

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