The latest ranking from Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group Foundation and Frontier Group, both liberal advocacy organizations, underscores efforts at the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. to increase transparency when taxpayer dollars are used to fund economic development subsidies.
Wisconsin has received the
second-highest marks in the nation for economic development-related
transparency and online access to information, according to a new report
— a major boost for a state whose job-creation agency faced numerous
problems in its early years.While the state was criticized for a severe lack of spending transparency in a 2012 WISPIRG report, this year’s analysis found Wisconsin is second only to Ohio for providing online access to the state’s use of taxpayer dollars to subsidize business projects or economic development...
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Ken Notes: Congratulations! This may have taken far too long but we have made giant strides. Now lets see if we can make the list incentives available to all growing companies. Especially the small employer who often not on the ED radar screen.
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