After decades near the bottom of most national economic measures, Kentucky needs jobs — and will do almost anything to get them.
Over the last 25 years, at a cost of $1.8 billion to state taxpayers, Kentucky's primary economic incentive programs have not only, according to a report published by the Lexington Herald-Leader, "barely moved the needle on the commonwealth's dismal rankings -- neither have they improved the lives of many people teetering on the edge of poverty."
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