Welcome to Jobs Inc., Where States Have Little Say in Economic Development

Governing: Parma, Ohio, could use some help. The Cleveland suburb is still recovering from a plague of foreclosures, and deep cuts in state aid have made it difficult to keep the local budget in order. General Motors remains the city’s largest employer, but it long ago shuttered a 750,000-square-foot powertrain and transmission plant in the heart of the city’s industrial section.

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