Oct. 15, 2011, Fremont News-Messenger
By Jessica Alaimo and Russ Zimmer
CentralOhio.com
When President Barack Obama or Ohio Gov. John Kasich speak, voters want to know: Where are the jobs?
When local candidates filled out CentralOhio.com’s voter guide, many echoed the same theme: “Residents consistently tell me that they want officials to focus efforts on creating jobs.”
The state allows local officials to offer businesses tax breaks for adding or keeping jobs. A CentralOhio.com analysis shows beneficiaries of the programs have mostly kept their promises.
Since enterprise zones were created in 1983, businesses in the zones created or kept 73 percent of the jobs they promised in exchange for breaks on real and personal property taxes.
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