...unions.Haley never misses an opportunity to bash unions, calling the state's low union membership rates an economic development tool. Earlier this year, Haley traveled to Wisconsin to help Gov. Scott Walker win his fight with public employees...
...shipping at the Port of Savannah and eliminated taxes on energy used by manufacturers.Such a measure provides an economic development tool to boost manufacturing business in the state."Manufacturing is coming back domestically," Cagle said...
...Haley never misses an opportunity to lambast unions and considers the state's low unionization membership an economic development tool. In 2011, union members made up 3.4 percent of South Carolina's workforce, and just more than 1 percent...
...to the line, in less than five years, according to Little Rock officials."The trolley was mostly as an economic-development tool," Woodard said. "(Little Rock) looked at it as an investment, not an expenditure."Brian Piascik of...
...cost to the utility for providing the service.As the officials quoted pointed out, broadband is an important economic development tool. But not every policy for achieving access makes economic or budgetary sense. S.B. 313 merely would require...
...our businesses and giving us an unbelievable economic development tool," she said.The first of a four-year phase-out...status as one of the least unionized states "an economic development tool unlike any other."She wants to require unions...
...at the end of this month will be an objective, real-world assessment of whether such a system would be the economic development tool the committee hopes -- or a boondoggle. Judging from readers' reactions to the Chronicle story of the committee's...
...State Ports Authority board. Mr. Sanford said that would make the Ports Authority, one of the state's top economic development tools, less accountable to the public and the governor while increasing the Legislature's influence. It "will...
...situated in an industrial park at Beaufort Street and Willow Run Road, is owned by the Aiken Corp., a nonprofit economic development tool for the city. The Aiken Corp. had been in talks with the National Guard since spring about bringing the proposed...
...feelings people have for the land, but that the project has broad support in the community and is an important economic development tool for Marlboro County. Ms. Hooper said people were displaced in years past when two state highways were widened...
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