Mar 24, 2017

Many smaller U.S. cities and towns are in a battle to attract manufacturing companies from other cities and towns, using tax incentives and other lures. But not in a small way! Economic-development tax incentives more than tripled over the past 25 years, according to the Wall Street journal, offsetting about 30% of the taxes the companies receiving incentives would have otherwise paid in 2015--to the tune of about $45 billion dollars! Find out why Ridell, the maker of football helmets for the NFL and NCAA, made the move from Elyria, Ohio to Ridgeville and why other companies are finding new homes as well.