{"id":257885,"date":"2026-05-28T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/salter-when-taxpayers-incentivize-jobs-the-state-should-protect-workers-privacy-in-union-votes\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:00:10","slug":"salter-when-taxpayers-incentivize-jobs-the-state-should-protect-workers-privacy-in-union-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/salter-when-taxpayers-incentivize-jobs-the-state-should-protect-workers-privacy-in-union-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Salter: When taxpayers incentivize jobs, the state should protect workers\u2019 privacy in union votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hubcityspokes.com\/when-taxpayers-incentivize-jobs-state-should-protect-workers-privacy-union-votes-6a18615f23a33\">Salter: When taxpayers incentivize jobs, the state should protect workers\u2019 privacy in union votes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hubcityspokes.com\/when-taxpayers-incentivize-jobs-state-should-protect-workers-privacy-union-votes-6a18615f23a33\">https:\/\/www.hubcityspokes.com\/when-taxpayers-incentivize-jobs-state-should-protect-workers-privacy-union-votes-6a18615f23a33<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-28 11:39:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.hubcityspokes.com\">www.hubcityspokes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Below is a political opinion column by Sid Salter:<\/p>\n<p><strong>State Sen. Josh Harkins has introduced legislation to protect the investments of state and local taxpayers in economic development projects that rely on taxpayer incentives.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves announced in December that the state will invest over $100 million in economic development projects\u2014projects that have created record-breaking numbers of jobs\u2014funded by Mississippi taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned in a previous column, these projects include the $20 billion xAI Data Center in Southaven, the $10 billion Amazon Web Services project in Madison County, and the $10 billion Compass Data Center in Lauderdale County. Site Selection Magazine\u2019s Alexis Elmore recently noted: \u201cIn less than two years, Mississippi has captured the three largest capital investment projects in the state\u2019s over 200-year history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis wasn\u2019t a matter of faltering on legacy industries\u2014such as advanced manufacturing; aerospace &#038; defense; agriculture; automotive; chemicals; distribution &#038; logistics; energy; and forestry\u2014but rather embracing a technology-driven economy\u2026(t)he most enticing tool on hand when it comes to securing multi-billion-dollar investments? In Mississippi, it comes in the form of incentives,\u201d Elmore observed.<\/p>\n<p>The same was true when Mississippi competed with other Southern states for high-tech jobs in automotive manufacturing, as&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hubcityspokes.com\/when-taxpayers-incentivize-jobs-state-should-protect-workers-privacy-union-votes-6a18615f23a33\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salter: When taxpayers incentivize jobs, the state should protect workers\u2019 privacy in union votes https:\/\/www.hubcityspokes.com\/when-taxpayers-incentivize-jobs-state-should-protect-workers-privacy-union-votes-6a18615f23a33&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.hubcityspokes.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/facebook_post\/public\/02-03-2021%20Sid%20Salter_125.jpg?itok=m3S086w8","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257887,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257885\/revisions\/257887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}