Outsourced Contractors Leaching Jobs & Economic Gains
Tax Increment Financing (TIF) has become an abused bidding tool used by Corporate America looking to expand, pitting neighboring communities against each other and leaching local economic development and jobs to out-of-town contractors.
For every $1 in earnings lost to an outsourced contractor or laborer, our communities lose $7.
Mike Smith, Business Agent, Laborers Local 751, speaks to the need for state laws that protect local jobs and laborers within neighboring communities.
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