Getting the goal right changes everything for economic development (Timothy J. Bartik, Brookings)

Traditionally, state and local economic developers in the United States have focused on one overriding goal: job growth. At a time when the nation is confronting growing income inequality, and voters are demanding that public policy deliver real increases in their standard of living, Amy Liu’s essay, “Remaking Economic Development,” challenges U.S. economic developers to rethink their goals. Economic developers should respond by redefining their goal as “inclusive growth”: improving the well-being of all local workers.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2016/03/14-economic-development-goals-bartik