The Illinois AFL- CIO, The Chicago Federation of Labor, and the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability invite you to an evening with Greg LeRoy, speaking and signing his new book, "The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation"

September 27, 2005, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
DePaul University/DePaul Center, 25 E. Jackson Boulevard, Suite 11013

Wine and cheese refreshments

RSVP to Jeff McCourt at 312-332-1480 or jeff (at) goodjobsfirst.org


Greg LeRoy, a labor consultant for many years in Chicago, is founder and director of Good Jobs First, a non-profit resource center for grassroots groups and policymakers seeking to make the $50 billion a year states and cities spend for job subsidies more accountable. His new book, The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation, exposes the tax scam euphemistically known as "business incentives" — including Illinois episodes such as Boeing, Sears, Wal-Mart and notorious giveaways such as Single Sales Factor and Tax Increment Financing (TIF). Greg offers common-sense reforms to deter abuses and ensure that taxpayer investments really pay off.

Greg LeRoy
Executive Director
Good Jobs First
email: goodjobs (at) goodjobsfirst.org
phone: 202-626-3780 ext. 27
website: www.goodjobsfirst.org
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What Reviewers Are Already Saying:

"A powerful compendium of corporate tax dodging in the U.S. Most disturbing is evidence that states and cities are usually paying companies to do whatever they would have done anyway. A persuasive study supported by lots of disturbing evidence." —Business Week, Editor's Review


"LeRoy's new book is a brisk and breezy tour through these sweetheart deals. It includes enough examples to outrage free-market conservatives and anti-corporate liberals alike."
—Clark Humphrey, The Seattle Times


"Giving businesses tax dollars to create jobs, as Greg LeRoy so deftly shows, almost always creates problems—less revenue for schools, higher taxes on working families, environmentally dangerous sprawl in our dwindling open spaces." —Sam Pizzigati, Too Much


"For years, Greg LeRoy has been America's chief whistle-blower on the subsidies, which he now estimates add up to an eye-popping $50 billion annually. LeRoy's just-published book. . .tells the story in full and colorful detail." —Neal Peirce, nationally syndicated columnist


"Greg LeRoy's Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation does the best job yet of exposing how business and state/local governments have checked into the No-Tell Motel together and how business has gained the advantage nearly every time. LeRoy argues persuasively that tax rates aren't the main thing driving business locations anyway; tax discounts are just something to be extracted because companies have figured out they can do it." —Jay Hancock, Baltimore Sun