The Job Creation Shell Game: Ending the Wasteful Practice of Subsidizing Companies that Move Jobs From One State to Another

With many states still grappling with
high unemployment and depressed tax
revenues, some have reverted to an economic
development shell game: paying
companies to jump state lines.1 This
beggar-thy-neighbor process, long ago
dubbed the "Second War Between the
States" is, unfortunately, raging again in
many parts of the country.

by
Greg LeRoy, Kasia Tarczynska, Leigh McIlvaine,
Thomas Cafcas and Philip Mattera

Full Story: http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/shellgame.pdf

Many thanks to Dan Ripke for sharing this.