Since 20 14, if you buy or build a new house in newton, the town will give you ten thousand dollars cash to spend as you wish. We now have built over 100 homes, 103 hundred four, i think, some 26 million dollars in additional taxable value. With more than 15 thousand people, newton now has its largest ever population.
A motley collection of parliamentarians, now without its whisper-thin majority, has
crumbled. That will force the country back to the ballot box—and back to familiar political turmoil. Increasing numbers of American cities are enticing people with cash incentives, but do such policies work? And why
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