{"215981":{"#nid":"215981","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Economic incentives a net positive according to EGRSO director Kevin Johns (MCP \u002777)","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe City of Austin, Texas currently supports 11 economic incentive agreements totaling $19 million in tax breaks for companies such as Visa, Apple, and Samsung in 2011 alone. City staff pointed to $4.8 billion in verified investment over that same time period and Austin\u2019s job growth as a sign incentives are worth it, particularly for underserved populations. \u201cWe have measured the unemployed, the hard to employ \u2013it\u2019s about 10,000 people in Austin,\u201d said Kevin Johns (MCP \u002777), the director of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/austintexas.gov\/department\/economic-growth-and-redevelopment-services-office\u0022\u003EEconomic Growth and Redevelopment Services Office\u003C\/a\u003E (EGRSO). \u201cAnd that population, we need to recruit the manufacturing and technology companies for those people.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27714","created_gmt":"2013-06-03 06:04:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:29","author":"Kyle James","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Georgia Tech-CNRS IRL 2958","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/kutnews.org\/post\/austin-s-economic-incentive-payments-19-million-counting","dateline":{"date":"2013-05-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-05-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"67411","name":"austin texas"},{"id":"815","name":"economic development"},{"id":"67401","name":"kevin johns"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}