Designed to boost rural counties, incentives buoy wealthy ones instead
Story Date: 12/23/2019

 

Source: Tyler Dukes, WRAL, 12/22/19

For more than a decade, the vast majority of the $1.3 billion in cash grants committed to lure jobs to the state has been directed to businesses in the state's most prosperous areas. And year after year, two in particular stand out. Wake and Mecklenburg alone – among North Carolina's 100 counties – have claimed about 60 percent of the funds pledged to companies through the Job Development Investment Grant and the One North Carolina Fund, the state's...

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