Small-business leader: Arizona needs law giving state contract preference to local firms - East Valley Tribune: Arizona: " Dollars spent with local businesses have a far greater impact on Arizona’s economy, tax revenues and jobs, and that applies even when state government puts out contracts for bid, the head of a small-business group said Friday.
Kimber Lanning, director of Local First Arizona, said Arizona should establish a preference for local firms when the state government solicits bids such as those for goods, services or contracting work.
“We are on this never-ending quest to save money on the front end,” Lanning said during an address as part of the University of Arizona’s Start Smart lecture series. “We are hemorrhaging jobs, buying ourselves broke.”
Many other states offer such an edge to locally owned companies, she said."
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