New Orleans With statistical unemployment below 4% for the first time in years, economists, policy makers, politicians, and self-interested hucksters have found something new to throw statistics at each other backwards and forwards: is the gig economy growing or slowing? At many levels one might say it depends on who you ask. At another level …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Now is the Time to Press Hospitals for Community Benefit Agreements
New Orleans Community benefit agreements have increasingly become part of the conversation in cities throughout the country when it comes to major developments at the intersection of private interest and public authority, regulations, and landholding. Few large cities under assault from major and minor sports interests to support stadium projects have not found themselves …
Stopping the Free Ride for Nonprofits on Property Taxes
New Orleans Talking recently about greater accountability for nonprofit hospitals with a health expert from Massachusetts, she kept bringing up PILOT programs and why they were important in funding health care expansion in her state. PILOT in the tax world stands for “payments in lieu of taxes.” It perked my interest to find out how …