Disclosure: The Best Antiseptic -- An Opportunity to Clean Up Economic Development in the Big Apple
by Good Jobs New York
February 2002
The embarrassing state of the city government’s economic development has only been able to persist because its workings are so hidden from public view. Hence, the cornerstone of reform must be disclosure. It would be ironic indeed if Mayor Bloomberg, who made his fortune by providing an unprecedented amount of information to Wall Street subscribers with his “Bloomberg Box” invention, would allow his new clients, the taxpayers, to remain in the dark.
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