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Strategies
for Improving Health and Economic Development in RC/EZ/ECs
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You can fatten your community's
wallet
(Economic Development) and lower it's cholesterol
(Improve Health) |
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Strategies for Improving
Health and Economic Development in RC/EZ/ECs
- Use Work Opportunity Tax Credit, Welfare
to Work Wage Credits, or Indian Employment Tax
Credit to hire RC/EZ/EC residents, especially
for health outreach, health services and health
promotion.
- Offer employees (and their spouses) smoking-cessation
classes to help them quit. This will help reduce
health care costs and absenteeism.
- Use Environmental Cleanup Cost Deduction (Brownfields)
to clean-up sites contaminated with hazardous
substances. Eligible businesses can choose to
deduct qualified environmental cleanup costs
in the tax year they pay or incur the cost.
- Ensure that all employees receive training
on appropriate safety precautions.
- Use Qualified Zone Academy Bonds to prepare
high school students in the RC/EZ/EC for health
careers and other jobs
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