Asking the Tough Questions

Alice Rolli, assistant commissioner of strategy at the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development, discusses the challenges of collecting and reporting data on economic development incentives. 

Pew’s business incentives initiative helps states identify and share best practices for collecting, managing, and analyzing data on economic development incentives. The business incentives initiative is a joint project of Pew and the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness and is supported by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. To learn more, visit the business incentives initiative.