The CEA’s John Mozena and David Guenthner of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy shone a light on the pervasive misinformation and secrecy in economic development programs in a recent column in The Hill:
It’s hard to find another area of public policy where the broad public understanding of an issue is so at odds with reality. Of course, few other areas of public policy are subject to such an unrelenting and well-funded bipartisan misinformation campaign as government “economic development” policy.