Workshops
Who Benefits?: State and Local Subsidy Reform
"Welfare reform for corporations" is an issue with broad, bi-partisan appeal. Even in business magazines like Forbes and in analyses by the Federal Reserve Bank, one can find devastating critiques of state and local development subsidies which pit localities against each other in ways that benefit not the public, nor even the business sector as a whole, but only those companies with sufficient political connections, clout, brashness, or luck to claim them.
We will explore various avenues of subsidy reform, including state legislation, local policy reform, community benefit agreements, and other ways to end the "candy store" syndrome.
Moderator: James Magavern,Magavern, Magavern & Grimm
Susan Jones, George Washington Law School
Peter Enrich, Northeastern School of Law
Greg LeRoy, Good Jobs First
Sadaf Khatri, NYC Jobs with Justice
Trudi Renwick, Fiscal Policy Institute
