South By North Strategies, Ltd.

The current issue of the Triangle Business Journal analyzes the pros and cons of a proposed state tax credit for small North Carolina businesses that hire employees. The article features the perspective of John Quinterno of South by North Strategies. From the story:

John Quinterno of Chapel Hill’s South By North Strategies, a research firm focusing on social and economic policy, agrees. “They (lawmakers) are looking at the problem in the right way and believe that public policy can help,” he says. “At that (jobs creation) rate, though, I think you have to ask whether the approach is very promising.”
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Perhaps the state would get more for its dollar, Quinterno adds, by using the $38 million it would forgo in taxes to preserve school employment or other government jobs or to maintain services.
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Can you accomplish more by maintaining state services? It’s a question I think you have to ask,” he says.