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This is Boondoggle, the newsletter about how corporations rip off our states, cities, and communities, and what we can do about it. If you’re not currently a subscriber, please click the green button below to sign up.

This is Boondoggle, the newsletter about how corporations rip off our states, cities, and communities, and what we can do about it. If you’re not currently a subscriber, please click the green button below to sign up.

This is Boondoggle, the newsletter about how corporations rip off our states, cities, and communities, and what we can do about it. If you’re not currently a subscriber, please click the green button below to sign up. Thanks! Recent coverage here has examined both the connection between corporate subsidies and lobbying and the political science behind why politicians love a corporate subsidy deal.

This is Boondoggle, the newsletter about how corporations rip off our states, cities, and communities, and what we can do about it. If you’re not currently a subscriber, please click the green button below to sign up. Thanks! Regular readers will know that corporate subsidies — defined broadly as public funds given to a specific corporation to locate a facility somewhere, or programs that are meant to encourage a certain form of economic activity — fail at their most basic goals.

This is Boondoggle, the newsletter about how corporations rip off our states, cities, and communities, and what we can do about it. If you’re not currently a subscriber, please click the green button below to sign up. Thanks! Today’s post was written by Maxine Adelson, an intern at the American Economic Liberties Project. The promise of corporate “economic development” subsidies is that they will create new jobs.

This is Boondoggle, the newsletter about how corporations rip off our states, cities, and communities, and what we can do about it. If you’re not currently a subscriber, please click the green button below to sign up. Thanks! It’s not often that political developments in Nebraska and New York converge, but they did this week, with Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen signing an executive order to block tax breaks for any new data center development a day before New York Gov.

This is Boondoggle, the newsletter about how corporations rip off our states, cities, and communities, and what we can do about it. If you’re not currently a subscriber, please click the green button below to sign up. Thanks! A group of 400 local newspaper publishers recently sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that their artificial intelligence-powered chat programs are the product of (among many other things) widespread, rampant theft from the news industry.

This is Boondoggle, the newsletter about how corporations rip off our states, cities, and communities, and what we can do about it. If you’re not currently a subscriber, please click the green button below to sign up. Thanks! One of the main research findings regarding the effectiveness of state and local corporate subsidies is that they don’t create much in the way of positive economic outputs — job creation, GDP increases, poverty reduction, etc.

This is Boondoggle, the newsletter about how corporations rip off our states, cities, and communities, and what we can do about it. If you’re not currently a subscriber, please click the green button below to sign up. Thanks! Today’s post was co-written by Maxine Adelson, an intern at the American Economic Liberties Project. Before adjourning earlier this month, the New York State legislature approved a bill that, if signed by Gov.

This is Boondoggle, the newsletter about how corporations rip off our states, cities, and communities, and what we can do about it. If you’re not currently a subscriber, please click the green button below to sign up. Thanks! Washington, D.C.’s, primary election (which almost always determines the general election winner in this heavily Democratic city) was held yesterday.