Michigan officials project that for the 2017-18 fiscal year, the state will write checks totaling $757.9 million to companies that received grants authorized under one program operated by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, the state agency in charge of business subsidies.
These are actual cash outlays, using tax dollars paid by other state taxpayers to cover checks written to recipients, who include automakers.
Michigan Capitol Confidential is the news source produced by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Michigan Capitol Confidential reports with a free-market news perspective.
Jobs agency ghost-writes its own public relations
Michigan taxpayers foot $1 million bill for an imaginary job threat
Mackinac Center sues economic development agency over alleged FOIA violations
Jobs agency ghost-writes its own public relations