Discover four key economic concepts: scarcity, supply and demand, costs and benefits, and incentives. Learn how they affect consumer choices and financial decisions.

Last week’s tax incentive package that would keep Nissan Motor Co.’s regional headquarters and its 1,300 jobs in the L.A. area was the latest proposal aimed at retaining key businesses and industries.

Tax incentives are one of the most controversial tools in the economic development tool kit. Proponents, including economic development officials, business leaders, developers and industry executives, ...

The rotunda is seen during the first day of the legislative session at the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines, Iowa on Monday, January 13, 2025. (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette) Buy Photo The Gazette offers ...

They say that money talks, but does it motivate? Finding the inspiration to live healthy can seem like an endless search. Readers of my articles will know that I'm squarely in the intrinsic motivation ...

This report from the Pew Center on the States shows that policy makers often create tax credits, deductions, and exemptions without reliable cost estimates and annual cost controls. Even in tight ...

Experts have slowly gravitated toward the benefits of broad-based incentives instead of luring specific companies with expensive incentive packages. But what do the hard numbers say? Tech giant Amazon ...

Vietnamese automaker VinFast announced in March 2022 that it would open an electric vehicle assembly plant in North Carolina. The battery manufacturing plant will be built in Chatham County and is ...

City of Martensville councillors passed all three readings during their January 27 meeting on a new economic development incentive bylaw, which updates some of the language from the previous bylaw and ...