Rather than focusing on massive corporate attraction projects, local economic developers should instead put their efforts behind homegrown entrepreneurial talent. That’s according to Greg LeRoy, executive director of Good Jobs First, a Washington, D.C. policy organization that tracks economic development deals around the country.
What’s led you to be critical of large economic development deals such as what we’ve seen in the last year with companies like Amazon and Foxconn?
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