Greg LeRoy

Dubbed “the leading national watchdog of state and local economic development subsidies,” Greg LeRoy founded and directs Good Jobs First, a research and policy center promoting accountability in economic development and corporate social responsibility. Greg led the campaign for Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) Statement 77 on Tax Abatement Disclosures, a landmark in U.S. municipal finance. It requires most localities, for the first time, to disclose how much revenue they lose to tax abatement programs. He wrote The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation (2005) and No More Candy Store: States and Cities Making Job Subsidies Accountable (1994).