Greg Leroy
Executive Director at Good Jobs First
- Role
- Executive Director at Good Jobs First
- Location
- Washington, DC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Greg Leroy
Dubbed “the leading national watchdog of state and local economic development subsidies,” Greg founded Good Jobs First in 1998. It is a full-service policy resource center for anyone seeking to reform economic development incentives. He has written, trained & consulted on economic development more than 30 years and GJF\'s 120+ studies have set a long string of research precedents.
Experience
Executive Director
Jul 1998 — Present · Washington, DC, US
Dubbed “the leading national watchdog of state and local economic development subsidies,” Greg founded Good Jobs First in 1998 thanks to the Public Interest Pioneer Award. He has written, trained & consulted on economic development >30 years and GJF\'s 120+ studies have set a long string of precedents. Greg backed into subsidy reform accidentally, while creating a non-profit consulting practice against plant closings from Chicago, starting in 1984. Clients included Illinois, New York, and Washington State. His 1986 Early Warning Manual Against Plant Closings (upon which he trained all 50 states for the U.S. Dept. of Labor) and his 1989 “Intervening With Aging Owners to Save Industrial Jobs” set precedents. Numerous plants he investigated were subsidized, yet being shuttered. Usually technically legal, they led to public outrage, clawbacks,etc. In 1987, Greg\'s study triggered a successful lawsuit by Duluth; the national-news verdict arrested the closure of the city\'s biggest factory. In 1990-92 he assisted workers in Elkhart, Indiana suing a drug maker that settled for $24 million.Collecting reforms out of these disputes, Greg wrote No More Candy Store in 1994. His 2005 book The Great American Jobs Scam was widely reviewed: C-Span’s Book TV, New York Review of Books, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal. Business Week: “powerful compendium of corporate tax dodging in the U.S.” State Tax Notes: “meticulously documented.scrupulously accurate.evocative storytelling.”Greg has spoken for such diverse audiences as AFL-CIO, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, Center for Transportation Excellence, State Priorities Partnership, Economic Analysis Research Network, Gamaliel Foundation, International Economic Development Council, Investigative Reporters and Editors, National Conference of State Legislatures, National League of Cities, New Partners for Smart Growth, Rail~Volution, Sierra Club, and scores of government, grassroots, non-profit and academics.
Education
BSJ Northwestern University, MA U.S. History Northern Illinois University
Journalism and U.S. History
Skills
- Community Organizing
- Analysis
- Ngos
- Coalitions
- Community Development
- Policy Analysis
- Proposal Writing
- Public/Private Partnerships
- Policy
- Legislative Relations
- Environmental Policy
- Sustainability
- Government
- Community Engagement
- Fundraising
- Board Development
- Nonprofits
- Strategic Communications
- Grants
- Political Campaigns
- Program Evaluation
- Capacity Building
- Philanthropy
- International Development
- Politics
- Program Development
- Non-Profits
- Non-Profit Administration
- Economic Development
- International Relations
- Grassroots Organizing
- Public Policy
- Community Outreach
- Political Science
- Grant Writing
- Volunteer Management
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