Here's How the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation is "Reinventing Economic Development"

WEDC board OK'd Ashley Furniture getting $6 million tax credit, cutting 1,900 jobs.  (Wisconsin State Journal, 8/24/2014)

Another retreat from 250,000.   As approved by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. board, the award would allow the Arcadia-based global furniture maker to move ahead with a $35 million expansion of its headquarters and keep 1,924 jobs in the state.

But it wouldn’t require Ashley to create any new jobs, instead granting the company license to lay off half of its current 3,848 Wisconsin-based workers in exchange for an enterprise zone tax credit, one of the most valuable and coveted state subsidies.

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