The Stories Project: Oregon Livelihoods Traded Away

Anna Braun Residence: Salem, OR Occupation: served on Salem city council from 2001-2004

Snapshots "What we wanted was family wage jobs, but what we didn't do was get any guarantees that they would stay, and often we would find that a corporation would come in and we would try to give them tax subsidies and taxpayer dollars and they would turn around and leave after they got the benefit but the community as the whole in a long term kind of way would not get the benefit from that corporation that we were hoping for."

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