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States and localities should carefully evaluate the effectiveness of the incentives they offer to attract or retain businesses.

When considering bond financing, state and local policymakers should:

Federal and state laws should prohibit maximum hiring ages and mandatory retirement ages for all workers. This should include public-safety employees.

Businesses that bid on federal, state, and local contracts should be required to report any complaints and determinations of unlawful and unfair practices.

Enforcement of civil and criminal laws should avoid penalizing people with escalating fines, loss of rights, or criminal penalties when the person subject to enforcement cannot sa

The federal government should broadly interpret and vigorously enforce the ADA

Due to their regressiveIn taxation, a situation in which people with low

States and localities should include services in the taxable base to reduce regressivity

Exemptions from state retail sales taxes should be narrowly designed to reduce their regressive

To ensure equity in property taxation, assessors should use fair-market value as the starting point for determining property values.