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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The City of Austin, Texas currently supports 11 economic incentive agreements totaling $19 million in tax breaks for companies such as Visa, Apple, and Samsung in 2011 alone. City staff pointed to $4.8 billion in verified investment over that same time period and Austin’s job growth as a sign incentives are worth it, particularly for underserved populations. “We have measured the unemployed, the hard to employ –it’s about 10,000 people in Austin,” said Kevin Johns (MCP '77), the director of Economic Growth and Redevelopment Services Office (EGRSO). “And that population, we need to recruit the manufacturing and technology companies for those people.”
