Statement by Bruno Mauer I strongly feel that the time has come to declare a moratorium on unneeded legislation and regulation. What we need is simplification and reform. Our nation and its people have long ago reached the point of saturation. We have not only saturated ourselves with laws, regulations and problems that have reached the crisis proportion of credibility, but we have far surpassed the point where we must undo much of the damage created. The primary task of lawmakers the balance of this decade should be to remove the tangle of restrictive laws we have created. Lawmakers should become law reducers if we are to face the balance of this decade with a system of government that operates under the guidance and a heritage of a republic within a democratic framework. (*Prepared by: F. P. Neuenschwander & Associates, 50 West Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215) What new jobs mean to community Research Study prepared by Chamber of Commerce of the United States Do you know others who should see: WHAT NEW JOBS MEAN TO A COMMUNITY (2928) Would you like to reproduce the charts on pages 8 and 11 in Copies of the charts on glossy paper, 81⁄2 x 11 inches, suit- 1954 study 15 printings, 69,000 1962 study 4 printings, 40,000 1973 study First printing, 10,000 Copyright © 1973, Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 73-78146 INTRODUCTION When a new manufacturing plant goes up, there is a net addition to income in the local community. The new payroll dollars flow into the cash registers of local merchants and into the coffers of local banks. Since the plant may purchase locally many materials, utilities and services, the local economy expands. This economic expansion is usually reflected in increases in population, school enrollment, and other concomitants of general community growth. A number of attempts have been made to measure the quantitative effects of new industrial payrolls upon a community. No exact measurement is possible because many other influences are simultaneously at work in the particular community. The National Chamber's Economic Analysis and Study Group attempted in 1954 to measure such changes using nine counties which became industrialized between 1940 and 1950, and again in 1962 attempted to measure such changes in eleven counties which industrialized between 1950 and 1960, as contrasted with eleven counties which did not industrialize. The earlier studies were widely cited by business firms, chambers of commerce, business development groups, state industrial development departments, and others. In response to many requests for updated figures, the present report studies economic and other changes occurring in ten counties which became industrialized between 1960 and 1970, as contrasted with ten counties which did not industrialize. Also, in response to requests from several large chambers of commerce for data more applicable to metropolitan areas, we have compared economic changes between 1960 and 1970 in 127 standard metropolitan statistical areas having greater employment growth (both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing), as contrasted with 127 areas having lesser employment growth. But the desirability of industrial growth as we have known it— in fact, economic growth in general-has been fundamentally questioned in the last few years by growing numbers of people concerned with unwanted side-effects. The time has long since passed when local and state governments, relying on an optimistic view that all growth is beneficial per se, compete with one another for new industry. Today a more sophisticated analysis of the costs and benefits of new industry characterizes industrial development efforts. This new |