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...state of Kentucky took a different tack earlier this year when it agreed to create higher-education programs specifically designed to provide United Parcel Service of America Inc. with a steady flow of part-time workers to load and unload packages from airplanes and trucks...
Local authorities defend the deal with a rosy economic forecast prepared for Greater Louisville Inc., the metropolitan area Chamber of Commerce. The chamber study predicts that 6,000 UPS jobs "will spawn nearly 8,000 additional jobs" throughout the region. It is estimated that all those jobs in turn "will generate more than $477 million annually in payroll growth." As is the case with many economic-impact statements, the numbers are fuzzy. But whatever the case, growth would have occurred somewhere in the U.S., perhaps even in Louisville, where UPS is already heavily invested. To remain competitive...
This week we take our commitment to public-service journalism to a new level by publishing the first of a series by Don Barlett and Jim Steele on the folly of corporate welfare. Barlett and Steele came to Time Inc. 18 months ago from the Philadelphia Inquirer, where, over 26 years, they earned their reputations as America's finest investigative reporters. Along the way they garnered almost every major journalistic prize, including two Pulitzers--for stories on auditing practices of the IRS and special tax breaks engineered by Congress--two Loeb awards for business reporting and four George Polk awards...
...much as conclusions gained from extraordinary digging. This series has included interviews with several hundred people in 24 states. "If you ask Don and Jim the sources for a point, be prepared for memos that tell you more than you ever want to know," says Steve Lovelady, the Time Inc. editor-at-large who worked on this project and who, as the Inquirer's managing editor before that, worked with Don and Jim on half a dozen other major series...
...endurance--whether they are learning math, the grammar of English or other languages, how to read music, run a four-cylinder engine, program a computer or balance a ledger. By strengthening our students' thinking abilities today, we can enrich their lives tomorrow. WILLIAM E. BROCK, Chairman Intellectual Development Systems, Inc. Annapolis...