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Missouri Seeks Cease-Fire in Kansas City Border War

A bill signed this week by Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has the potential to solve one aspect of the wasteful jobs border war currently ravaging the Kansas City metropolitan economy: the use of state...

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Report: Sprawling Job Piracy among Cities and Suburbs Can Be Ended

Washington, DC – The most common form of job piracy-among neighboring localities in the same metro area-can be ended, as agreements in the Denver and Dayton metro areas have proved for decades. The...

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Tesla Open Letter Electrifies Gigafactory Debate

Early this week Good Jobs First joined its voice with those of progressive organizations in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada and Texas to express concerns about the pending subsidy bidding war...

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Ask Tesla’s Elon Musk to Open-Source His Subsidy Demands

Good Jobs First has launched a petition through MoveOn asking Tesla CEO Elon Musk to open-source his ≥$500 million subsidy demands. Sign the petition here. #157501396 / gettyimages.com Tesla Motors is...

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Tesla, We Have Questions

For Immediate Release September 4, 2014 Contacts: Bob Fulkerson bfulkerson@planevada.org 775-348-7557 Greg LeRoy goodjobs@goodjobsfirst.org 202-232-1616 x 211 Bob Fulkerson of the Progressive...

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Tesla: New Technology, Same Old Subsidy Charade

Tesla Motor’s shameful subsidy competition for its battery factory is wrapping up to a close in a state known for big gambling.  The Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) announced...

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GASB Finally Prepares to Step Up! And Who is GASB, You Ask?

For many years, we at Good Jobs First have criticized GASB—the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, or “GAZ-bee”— for failing to require state and local governments to disclose economic development...

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2014: A Landmark Year for Subsidy Accountability

Two-thousand fourteen was a banner year for our movement, hands down. The first move to require standardized subsidy-cost reporting! The first half of a legally-binding two-state cease fire deal! The...

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