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• Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press
• Date: August 20, 2006
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• Bylines: MaryJo Webster , John Welbes
• Topics: Business , Tax
• Data Types: State Data
• Description/Excerpt: John Welbes of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, with data analysis from MaryJo Sylwester, has a look at Minnesota's Job Opportunity Building Zones program, which provides tax breaks for companies in rural areas. "A Pioneer Press analysis of the Minnesota deals so far suggests that a county's unemployment rate might be less important than its having JOBZ land near an interstate or a sizable city. For example, Stearns County, which includes St. Cloud, has attracted the most JOBZ projects - 21 so far, including an Arctic Cat engine-building plant in Thief River Falls, Minn."