Labor Force Controversy in Colorado Springs, 2008
EDR Group's Steven Landau contends that moving jobs between states in the US domestic economy does not add to national economic growth, July 2008
HP eyes move of support facilities out of Colorado Springs, Computer World Magazine, July 2008.
Steven Landau, an analyst at the Economic Development Research Group Inc., a research firm in Boston, said that state subsidies to attract business relocation from other states doe snot necessarily increase employment. "Nationally, it's a wash," he said. But the push for incentives may mean that states divert tax revenue money for incentives that might be spent on other services.