TAX INCREMENT FINANCING: WHAT IS IT AND WHY SHOULD NYC CARE?
From the March 12, 2003 Forum "Tax Increment Financing Coming to the Big Apple?" co-hosted by Good Jobs New York, the Center for Workforce and Economic Development, and the Municipal Arts Society:
Opening
comments from Greg LeRoy, Director of Good Jobs First
Neil deMause, journalist and co-author of Field of Schemes;
Patricia Nolan of the
Neighborhood Capital Budget Group in Chicago;
Theresa Devine, Senior Economist at
the New York City Independent
Budget Office
Check out the wealth of information and analysis on the website of the Chicago-based Neighborhood Capital Budget Group on how TIFs can be used or misused.
Read Good Jobs First's new report for the National Education Association -- Protecting Public Education from Tax Giveaways to Corporations: Property Tax Abatements, Tax Increment Financing, and Funding for Schools