More Jobs, Better Jobs, and an Accountable Jobs Creation Process – Five Strategies for Improving North Carolina’s Economic Development Incentive Programs

January 2012

KEY FINDINGS:

• Reforming North Carolina’s economic development incentive programs is key to attracting and retaining companies that will create new and better‐paying jobs to communities throughout the state.
• Policymakers could adopt five strategies to strengthen the competitiveness and fairness of economic development incentives.