MIDLAND, Mich. — As the Michigan Legislature considers a new wave of corporate welfare handouts during its lame-duck session, a new study from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy ...reveals that only 9% of the jobs announced in major state-sponsored deals from 2000 to 2020 were ever created.
- Analyzing front-page headlines from the Detroit Free Press, the study found that while companies promised 123,060 jobs through subsidy agreements, only 10,889 materialized.
- Worse, half of the companies awarded deals created no jobs at all, and just 15% of companies met or exceeded their job projections...
Here are just a few of the 41 job announcements and results covered in the study:
- A 2007 deal with a Detroit pharmaceutical company promised to create 600 jobs. Instead, the company added zero new jobs and closed its facility by 2014.
- A 2009 deal with General Electric promised 1,200 jobs. Zero jobs were created.
- A 2008 headline announced, “State reels in jobs.” It announced 4,800 jobs. Companies created 112 jobs.
- One local official proclaimed she could not “overstate the impact” of a 2015 deal to create 1,000 jobs. The company created 26 jobs...
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