What does EZP stand for?

Other programs, such as the Enterprise Zone program, have boosted businesses across the state including Mercury Marine, Oshkosh Truck, Uline, Republic Airways and Morgan Aircraft creating more than 5,500 jobs.

California needs the Enterprise Zone Program now more than ever--by creating good-paying jobs we will take pressure off of government assistance programs and generate more individual and corporate tax revenue to fill the state's coffers.

As part of plan, the city will invest $50,000 to broaden marketing efforts for the Enterprise Zone program.

In her role as Commerce Secretary, Bauer has been New Jersey's lead advocate for business--headlining the efforts to strengthen the Garden State's business attraction and retention programs, managing the Urban Enterprise Zone program, promoting the state as a premier tourism destination and otherwise maintaining the state's standing in the global marketplace.

It sounds pretty promising," said Sorenson, who says the enterprise zone program should only reward firms that create and maintain family-wage jobs, which could at least support a family of three.

The idea of the federal enterprise zone program was in part realized in the Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities (EZEC) Act that was passed by Congress in May 1993 under the Clinton Administration (Rubin, 1994; Liebschutz, 1995).

These data will be used to help inform the Urban Enterprise Zone program, for applications to the Community Development Block Grant Program, in newspaper and television and radio stories, and by hundreds of businesses and local governments attempting to enlighten their work with a comprehensive, standard set of information that is comparable across the state and throughout the United States.

Other success stories include the addition of a Michaels Arts & Crafts chain warehouse in Lancaster, which hired 130 workers, and Northrop Grumman, which hired more than 260 through enterprise zone programs.