Incentives-for-jobs grants fail

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 4:04 p.m. October 25, 2011
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The state of Florida has committed $1.7 billion to job-creation grants since 1995. But while officials expected 224,286 new jobs in return, only 73,669 were actually created, according to reports filed by the Orlando Sun-Sentinel.

 

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