Public Policies for Distressed Communities
Author: F. Stevens Redburn
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: F. Stevens Redburn
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: F. Stevens Redburn
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 282
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Public Policies for Distressed Communities Revisited marks the return of scholars F. Stevens Redburn and Terry Buss to the topic of national policy toward economically distressed areas. Redburn and Buss first addressed these issues a generation ago and in this new book they explore how the intervening years have redefined the problems affecting distressed communities. In a series of focused, analytical essays the book examines the innovative approaches being developed to tackle the traditional problem--including the new roles currently played by federal and state governments--of connecting impoverished areas and their residents to jobs and opportunity. This book offers valuable new insight and information to public policy professionals, urban planners, and academics specializing in economic and community development.
Author: Timothy J. Bartik
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Published: 2019
Total Pages: 59
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Should policymakers seek to increase jobs in particular local labor markets? Yes, but only if these policies are well targeted and designed. Encouraging job growth in distressed places can cause persistent gains in employment-to-population ratios. But our current place-based jobs policies, under which state and local governments provide long-term tax incentives to megacorporations, are poorly targeted and designed. Such incentives are as large in nondistressed areas as in distressed areas, and they are excessively costly. What reforms are needed? First, job growth policies should target distressed areas. Second, tax incentives should be focused on high-multiplier businesses, such as high-tech firms. Third, officials can more effectively promote local job creation by relying less on tax incentives and more on public services. These include customized business services, infrastructure, land development policies, local education, and job training. The federal government can use taxes and intergovernmental grants to discourage city or state officials from giving excessive state and local incentives to the largest firms. The federal government can also provide block grants to state and local governments to provide services that promote job growth in distressed places.
Author: F. Stevens Redburn
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 314
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: U S Government Accountability Office (G
Publisher: BiblioGov
Published: 2013-06
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781289088118
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information about the condition of basic public services in poorer communities in New Jersey. GAO found that: (1) local governments provided the vast majority of public service programs; (2) federal aid to localities declined between 1978 and 1986; (3) New Jersey has made substantial economic progress over the past decade, but not all of the state's communities have shared in the prosperity, and the large fiscal gap between wealthier and poorer communities has grown; (4) municipalities play a key role in the delivery of public services in New Jersey; (5) New Jersey fiscal policies restrict local government revenue sources; (6) state aid to New Jersey municipalities is substantial, but the state could reduce the disparities between wealthier and poorer communities through increased targeting; (7) general revenue sharing (GRS) did not represent a large share of revenues in either of the communities that GAO studied, but local officials regarded those funds as very important; (8) the two communities have high service needs but few resources; (9) the two communities improved their administration and program operations to maintain services with fewer revenues; (10) the two communities used management improvements and tax increases to cope with fiscal distress and the loss of GRS; (11) although state aid favors wealthier communities, New Jersey has taken measures to help its poorest communities; and (12) through the development of new public assistance programs, 1990 state aid to the two communities is significantly greater than their 1986 GRS allocation.
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 320
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Susan J. Popkin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016-10-07
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1442268832
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book, Sue Popkin tells the story of how an ambitious—and risky—social experiment affected the lives of the people it was ultimately intended to benefit: the residents who had suffered through the worst days of crime, decay, and rampant mismanagement of the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA), and now had to face losing the only home many of them had known. The stories Popkin tells in this book offer important lessons not only for Chicago, but for the many other American cities still grappling with the legacy of racial segregation and failed federal housing policies, making this book a vital resource for city planners and managers, urban development professionals, and anti-poverty activists.