Communities
Community Benefits Agreements, Decoded
When a stadium or megadevelopment wants public land, the neighborhood sometimes gets a contract. The documented record shows when those contracts pay and when they are set dressing.
Hana Kimura
Communities
Reporting at the scale of a town or district, where one employer can determine a tax base, a school budget and a housing market. Coverage follows arrivals, closures, incentive deals and the years afterward. Read by local officials, economic development staff, planners and residents facing similar decisions.
Town and neighborhood reporting on local economies: an employer arriving or leaving, the tax base that follows it, and what a municipal budget can absorb.
Communities
The Factory the Workers Bought: ESOPs and Towns
Employee stock ownership plans now cover over 10 million Americans, and the towns where retiring owners sold to their workers document what changes when payroll becomes ownership.
Hana Kimura
Communities
When the Last Hospital Leaves the County
Rural hospital closures do more than lengthen the drive to emergency care: they remove a county's largest employer and a anchor of its tax base.
Jay Douglas