Corporate Economic Blackmail and What to Do about It

Companies may throw a bone to communities, but it’s nowhere near the money they take and not enough to enable taxpayers to ever break even. And when costs and benefits are crunched by race, income, and geography, such deals worsen racialized inequality. In short, what passes for “economic development” is too often little more than politician-abetted corporate extraction of public resources.

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