By Sandra Haros | KTAR
A new national report ranked Arizona 32nd in its performance for disclosing key outcomes of economic development subsidies.
The findings of “Show Us the Subsidized Jobs,” a report issued Friday by Good Jobs First — a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center based in Washington, D.C. — reveals that all but four states now post at least partial information online showing which companies are receiving economic development subsidies. But the quality and depth of those disclosures vary widely, both among and within states. Three-fourths of major state development programs still fail to disclose actual jobs created or workers trained, and only one out of every eleven programs discloses wages actually paid.
