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Community Development: The Federal Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community Program

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Oct. 28, 1997
Report No. T-RCED-98-27
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Summary:

This testimony focuses on the Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community program, which targets federal grants to distressed urban and rural communities for redevelopment and social services and provides tax and regulatory relief to attract businesses to distressed communities. GAO discusses the (1) program's implementation in six urban empowerment zones: Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Philadelphia-Camden; (2) factors that program participants believe have either helped or hindered efforts to carry out the program; and (3) plans for evaluating the program.

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