A Review: Economic Development Programs 2006
This report claims that the state of Wisconsin’s 152 economic development programs are not adequately tracked, often overlap one another and have included situations in which businesses awarded grants later laid off employees. It offers a few tactics that policymakers can use to get more accurate and reliable information about the costs and effectiveness of economic development programs to make informed decisions.
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Link
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/lab/reports/06-9Full.pdf