December 29, 2025 – A decade-long subsidy package for a Compass Datacenters project in Meridian, Mississippi has been selected as the nation’s “Worst Economic Development Deal of the Year” for 2025 by The Center for Economic Accountability. The Texas-based data center construction firm plans to build a campus containing eight single-tenant data centers in Lauderdale County on … Continue reading Mississippi Data Center Project Named 2025’s “Worst Economic Development Deal of the Year” by The Center for Economic Accountability
Testimony to Michigan House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic Development
On October 29, CEA President John C. Mozena was invited to testify before the Michigan State House of Representatives' Oversight Subcommittee on Economic Development and State Investments. It was his third time as an invited witness before the subcommittee, which was created in 2024 to impose legislative oversight on Michigan's out-of-control economic development subsidy programs. … Continue reading Testimony to Michigan House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic Development
New Report: Corporate Social Irresponsibility
The responsible investing movement should join the fight against corporate welfare. That's the argument made by a new report authored by CEA President John C. Mozena and Richard Morrison, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The report, "Corporate Social Irresponsibility: After ESG, activist investors should side with taxpayers" was published by CEI on July … Continue reading New Report: Corporate Social Irresponsibility
Column in National Review: Get the Federal Government Out of States’ Economic Development Wars
For the first time in decades, budget cutters are taking a meaningful look at federal government programs and trying to identify wasteful and inefficient spending to eliminate. In National Review, CEA President John C. Mozena suggests cutting the hundreds of federal programs that subsidize state governments' ongoing race to the bottom of subsidized economic development … Continue reading Column in National Review: Get the Federal Government Out of States’ Economic Development Wars
Cato Daily Podcast: The State-Run Corporate Handouts That Help Politicians and Harm Taxpayers
On the Cato Daily Podcast this week, CEA President John Mozena, Cato Institute Senior Fellow and Cato Daily Podcast host Caleb O. Brown discussed the ways that state and local economic development subsidies are more focused on Election Day 'job creation' for the politicians who control them than they are on any actual economic factors … Continue reading Cato Daily Podcast: The State-Run Corporate Handouts That Help Politicians and Harm Taxpayers