Gretchen Whitmer's corporate welfare fund costs Michigan taxpayers nearly $800,000 per job - The Midwesterner

Gretchen Whitmer's corporate welfare fund costs Michigan taxpayers nearly $800,000 per job - The Midwesterner

Four years after lawmakers created a Strategic Outreach Attraction Reserve Fund to bribe businesses to create jobs in Michigan, it’s finally paying off. But the cost is eye watering. “Hiring to date reflects a cost per new job of about $795,000 based on still-active job-creation incentive awards and recent company reports to the state,” Bridge Michigan reports. “If all jobs are realized from the active projects, that cost will drop to about $160…