For-profit colleges sometimes describe themselves as the “tax-paying sector” of higher education. Now the Education Management Corporation will receive $6-million in state and local tax credits and grants as part of a plan to expand its headquarters in Pittsburgh and add 600 employees over the next three years, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune Review. The company, which operates the Art Institutes and Argosy University, said the new workers — at the headquarters and at a new data center — would be in addition to the 2,500-plus it already employs, and would be part of a $30-million investment in Allegheny County.
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One Response to For-Profit College Company to Get Pennsylvania Tax Breaks for Adding Jobs
willynilly - December 1, 2009 at 6:43 pm
This is absolutely ridiculous and an abject insult to the legitmate system of Higher Education in Pennsylvania; who historically employed and prepared for employment, hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Commonwealth residents – and had to beg and plead for $ crumbs decade after decade. What an amazingly poor public policy. Lawmakers should hold their heads in shame.