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Overgrown 

"Even before realizing that businesses often fail to create the jobs they’ve promised, it’s becoming increasingly clear that growth rarely, if ever, pays for itself."

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With municipalities across America questioning the value of giving enormous tax breaks to expanding companies, one community is completing the sixth study illustrating the true costs and benefits of the prevailing political mantra, "growth is good." This latest work, backed by…

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