Good Jobs Guru Comes to Town

Greg LeRoy has been tracking state and local economic development subsidies for a long time. He did some research in Michigan in 2006 that analyzed the effectiveness of our economic development strategies, and now he's tracking Michigan's handling of federal stimulus dollars.

Leroy will be a keynote speaker at this Friday's 2010 Michigan Land and Prosperity Summit in East Lansing. He's one of a trio of experts headlining the summit, which also includes former Genesee County Treasurer Dan Kildee, now with the Center for Community Progress, and Chris Leinberger with the Brookings Institution.  

LeRoy recently talked to Michigan Now's Chris McCarus:



You can hear more from LeRoy at the 22010 Michigan Land and Prosperity Summit this Friday, April 23, 2010, at the Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center on Michigan State University's campus.

Online registration for the summit is open here.

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Greg Leroy in the executive director and founder of Good Jobs First, based in Washington, D.C., and is the author of two books: The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation (2005) and No More Candy Store: States and Cities Making Job Subsidies Accountable (1994).