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The Honor System

South Carolina pays companies to create jobs, then takes their word the jobs exist. The records that would check sit unused since the mid-1990s.

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The Honor System

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The Honor System

When South Carolina pays a company to create jobs and later wants to know whether the jobs exist, it asks the company. That is not a simplification. The state’s auditors wrote it as a finding in 2020: the only evidence the Department of Commerce uses to verify a company’s job creation is documentation provided by the company itself. They printed an exam…

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