[PEN-L:8751] Re: RE: Re: the NFL and urban development

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

LeRoy has gathered wonderful statistics about the subsidy per job that has been
given by state and local gov'ts.  Even the Fed. Reserve Bank of Minn. has come
out against such subidies in general -- I don't know how they stood on the
Minneapolis stadium.

Perhaps if some of the poor would only declare themselves to be a sports team,
money would flow to them.

"Max B. Sawicky" wrote:

> The guy with the most to say about all this from an activist
> standpoint is Greg LeRoy, who runs a little project here called
> 'Good Jobs' as part of Citizens for Tax Justice.  You can find
> his web site by going to CTJ's at www.ctj.org.

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

Tel. 530-898-5321
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