S.C. leaders debate secrecy period on Boeing incentive package

Some state leaders in South Carolina are criticizing a policy that allows officials to hide for up to a year the details of a $450 million incentive package used to help lure a Boeing Co. assembly line to the city of North Charleston. To encourage the Boeing move, with its estimated $10 billion economic effect on the area over 15 years, lawmakers offered the biggest financial incentive package in state history, but some skeptics question the validity of the economic assumptions.

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