Report: Gretchen Whitmer's 'generational' corporate welfare deals cost taxpayers nearly $3 MILLION - per job! - The Midwesterner

Report: Gretchen Whitmer's 'generational' corporate welfare deals cost taxpayers nearly $3 MILLION - per job! - The Midwesterner

A new analysis of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s “generational” corporate welfare for billion-dollar companies shows they’re costing taxpayers nearly $3 million per job actually created. “These deals were supposed to reshape Michigan’s economy, but they’ve delivered only a tiny fraction of the promised jobs while costing taxpayers millions,” James Hohman, director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, said in a statement. “Business…

Mackinac Center report casts doubt on state job deals

A new report from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy casts doubt on the benefits of subsidy deals reached by the Whitmer administration with employers to expand in Michigan. The center has found that of the eight trademark deals made by Governor Gretchen Whitmer, 20,595 jobs were promised while only 608 jobs have been created. And those jobs were part of the justification for awarding $1.8 billion in subsidies. Report author James Hohman say…

Mackinac Center questions benefits of Whitmer subsidy deals

A new report from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy casts doubt on the benefits of subsidy deals reached by the Whitmer administration with employers to expand in Michigan. The center has found that of the eight trademark deals made by Governor Gretchen Whitmer, 20,595 jobs were promised while only 608 jobs have been created. And those jobs were part of the justification for awarding $1.8 billion in subsidies. Report author James Hohman says…