ProGov21 Policy Library

Communities of color continue to face obstacles to economic equality. Structural reforms are necessary not only to lift underresourced communities but to improve outcomes for all Americans struggling to make ends meet. This roadmap details campaigns in Oregon to raise the minimum...

Tech companies have been rapidly expanding their networks of facilities that store and retrieve digital information through the creation of new data centers. State and local governments routinely subsidize these projects, providing traditional subsidies, such as local property tax...

Tax incentives given in the name of economic development are the dominant form of spending for job creation in New Mexico; these types of tax incentives are also the least transparent and most poorly monitored. Thus, in response to New Mexico’s costly, ineffective, and insufficiently...

Corporations often compensate their CEOs and other top employees with stock options, which are contracts allowing the option holder to purchase the company’s stock at a set price for a fixed period. This is a problem because they allow corporations to report a much larger expense...

This ordinance outlines the disclosure requirements necessary when a corporation applies for city council approval with respect to the sale/purchase of real estate, property tax reclassification, zoning, financial assistance from the City of Chicago, or entering into a contract with...

This report examines a 2016 executive order reforming Louisiana's Industrial Tax Exemption Program. As an attempt to balance business and community interests, the reforms increased industrial property taxes, limited the overall corporate tax exemption, and required applications to...

This bill, passed in 2021 by the Michigan State Senate, finds that spending on universal infrastructure like transportation or education is a superior use of the state budget and should be prioritized over company-specific subsidies. As such, it recommends that midwestern states join...

For decades, companies in a range of economic sectors have manipulated the tax system to avoid paying taxes on billions of dollars in U.S. profits. The major tax cut recently enacted by Congress will likely allow for this tax avoidance to continue. This report examines 15 corporations’...