By BECKY GILLETTE John D. Correnti, the businessman Arkansas is counting on to deliver “the largest economic development project in the state’s history,” a proposed $1.1 billion steel mill in Mississippi County in northeast Arkansas, has recently failed to deliver on promises for big projects in Mississippi. Tuesday Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe announced that Correnti’s [...]
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MBJ ANALYSIS: Businessman promising $1.1 billion steel plant in Arkansas has failed to deliver on big projects announced in Mississippi
Report: State has ways to go in monitoring jobs incentives
January 18, 2012
A new report by Good Jobs First, a non‐profit, non‐partisan research center based in Washington, D.C., gives Mississippi a C- in a state-by-state assessment of how states monitor, verify and enforce the terms of job subsidies granted private companies as economic development incentives. The report titled Money‐Back Guarantees for Taxpayers: Clawbacks and Other Enforcement Safeguards [...]
January 31, 2013
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