State Economic Development Strategies

Maryland’s Sweetheart Offer to Amazon Makes No Sense

April 18, 2018 –

My home state of Maryland has agreed to give Amazon as much as $5.6 billion in state tax breaks, nearly $1 billion in local tax...

State and Local Issues

A Little-Publicized Incentive In The New Tax Law Could Become America’s Largest Economic Development Program

March 27, 2018 –

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act included a new federal incentive—Opportunity Zones—to spur investment in poor and undercapitalized communities. These incentives could become the nation’s...

State and Local Issues

Delta, Guns, And Economic Development Tax Breaks

March 1, 2018 –

Delta Airlines announces it is cancelling its affinity program with the National Rifle Association. In retaliation, Georgia’s lieutenant governor says he’ll try to kill a...

How Taxpayers in DC and its Suburbs Would Fare Under the New Tax Law

January 22, 2018 –

As Tax Policy Center analyses have shown , the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) treats people of similar incomes in very different ways, depending...

Three Questions Policymakers Should Be Asking About The Foxconn Megadeal

August 1, 2017 –

Last week, President Trump and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker announced that Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn, a major supplier of LCD screens to Apple, would receive $3...

State and Local Issues

More than Medicaid: The Full Cost of ACA Repeal and Replace for States

July 11, 2017 –

Congressional plans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act have governors worried – and with good reason. Although proposals continue to evolve, states stand...

State and Local Issues

What do immigrants cost state and local governments?

June 8, 2017 –

Heated debates about travel bans and border walls seem to dominate the news cycle, but what do we really know about the effects of immigration?...

State and Local Issues

Massachusetts gave GE a “mega-deal” to move, but did it matter?

May 8, 2017 –

General Electric decided to relocate its headquarters from Fairfield, Connecticut, to Boston, Massachusetts, last year. To convince GE to make the move, state government agencies...