Public Policies for Distressed Communities
Author | : F. Stevens Redburn |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : F. Stevens Redburn |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : F. Stevens Redburn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Public Policies for Distressed Communities Revisited marks the return of scholars F. Stevens Redburn and Terry Buss to the topic of national policy toward economically distressed areas. Redburn and Buss first addressed these issues a generation ago and in this new book they explore how the intervening years have redefined the problems affecting distressed communities. In a series of focused, analytical essays the book examines the innovative approaches being developed to tackle the traditional problem--including the new roles currently played by federal and state governments--of connecting impoverished areas and their residents to jobs and opportunity. This book offers valuable new insight and information to public policy professionals, urban planners, and academics specializing in economic and community development.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Economic assistance, Domestic |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Timothy J. Bartik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 59 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Competition |
ISBN | : |
Should policymakers seek to increase jobs in particular local labor markets? Yes, but only if these policies are well targeted and designed. Encouraging job growth in distressed places can cause persistent gains in employment-to-population ratios. But our current place-based jobs policies, under which state and local governments provide long-term tax incentives to megacorporations, are poorly targeted and designed. Such incentives are as large in nondistressed areas as in distressed areas, and they are excessively costly. What reforms are needed? First, job growth policies should target distressed areas. Second, tax incentives should be focused on high-multiplier businesses, such as high-tech firms. Third, officials can more effectively promote local job creation by relying less on tax incentives and more on public services. These include customized business services, infrastructure, land development policies, local education, and job training. The federal government can use taxes and intergovernmental grants to discourage city or state officials from giving excessive state and local incentives to the largest firms. The federal government can also provide block grants to state and local governments to provide services that promote job growth in distressed places.
Author | : Michael J. Rich |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1400863589 |
Do federal, state, and local governments differ in their responsiveness to the needs of the poorest citizens? Are policy outcomes different when federal officials have greater influence regarding the use of federal program funds? To answer such questions, Michael Rich examines to what extent benefits of federal programs actually reach needy people, focusing on the relationship between federal decision-making systems and the distributional impacts of public policies. His extensive analysis of the Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG), the principal federal program for aiding cities, reveals that the crucial divisions in domestic policy are not among the levels of government, but between constellations of participants in the different governmental arenas. Rich traces the flow of funds under the CDBG from program enactment through three tiers of targeting--to needy places, to needy neighborhoods, and to needy people--and offers a comparative study of eight CDBG entitlement communities in the Chicago area. He demonstrates that while national program parameters are important for setting the conditions under which local programs operate, the redistributive power of federal programs ultimately depends upon choices made by local officials. These officials, he argues, must in turn be pressed by benefits coalitions at the community level in order to increase the likelihood that federal funds will reach their targets. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : United States. General Accounting Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Municipal services |
ISBN | : |
Author | : F. Stevens Redburn |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. General Accounting Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Municipal services |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Sidor |
Publisher | : Council of State Community |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781880942000 |
This report proposes that state economic development policy and resources, and state personnel, with their knowledge of and access to the business community, can contribute to the intertwined issues of competitiveness and poverty. Following an introduction, chapter 2 examines four related issues: poverty, income equity, welfare dependency, and the urban underclass. Each issue is defined, and a policy context is provided by analyzing or summarizing policy approaches to the issue. Chapter 3 focuses on current state economic development practices that could be used in a state antipoverty strategy. It addresses "supply-side" activities that make production factors more attractive to businesses in ways that would also benefit poor people and distressed areas. Then it describes"demand-side" activities that help create new economic investment to benefit these groups and areas. Chapter 4 addresses two important facets of resource delivery: local implementation, and collaboration among resources. It reviews the four major sets of institutional resources available for a state antipoverty policy--education, welfare, job training, and economic development--and discusses linkage. It looks at the local implementation system, reviews building the competencies of local government, discusses approaches to collaboration, and describes successful collaborative efforts. Chapter 5 outlines policy approaches to addressing poverty, sets a framework for a state economic opportunity strategy, and describes its components. (197 references) (YLB)