$39B in CHIPS Act subsidies—what are we getting? 🤔 No one knows. Deals were made in secret with no guarantees for jobs, wages, or to protect neighborhoods from forever chemicals.
Public money should deliver public good — we deserve answers.
#SunshineWeek
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Economic development incentives are often shrouded in secrecy, leaving residents with little/no voice in the process. But thanks to public pressure, some states and localities are making progress.
Let's keep insisting on greater transparency.
#SunshineWeek
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Elon Musk is one of the biggest recipients of government aid.
Nearly two-thirds of Musk's $38 billion in government funding has been promised to his businesses just in the past five years, the story notes.
And Musk's $38 billion in government funding is surely an under-count.

Jeff Bezos' Amazon has extracted at least $11.6 billion in taxpayer subsidies.
Because so many deals are secretive and the values undisclosed, that's likely a massive undercount.

But do tell us more about "free markets."
🧾: goodjobsfirst.org/amazon-track...

Big Tech extracts billions of public dollars from communities to build data centers - in the form of tax breaks, energy discounts, discounted land, free infrastructure + more - and often fail to create permanent jobs or good jobs for people living in those places. 👇🏾
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Anticipating that the new Administration might remove online materials we use in assembling Violation Tracker, we have collected and posted permanent source links from Archive.org (the Wayback Machine) for 95,000 federal records derived from online press releases and other individual documents.

On average, this lost revenue could have paid for 6,641 more instructors each year, or a mix of hiring and teacher raises to reduce quit rates.
In a state plagued by teacher shortages, this missing money could have made a big difference.
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A new Good Jobs First analysis reveals South Carolina’s public schools lost almost $3.2 billion to corporate tax abatements between 2017 and 2023.

Losses per student rose from $448 in 2017 to $727 in 2023.
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Timely reminder for the St. Louis Board of Aldermen, which is poised to vote this week on two bills doling out tax breaks to local firms who don't need the "incentive"

Contact your alderperson & PBOA Megan Green:
Vote NO on Board Bills 161 & 166!!

Corporations extracting tax breaks and other subsidies from state and local governments means any vital public service you care about has less money - and that includes firefighting.
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Class-action lawsuits finalized in 2024 totaled $26.4B.
Major cases include PFAS (forever chemicals), anti-competitive practices, drug safety violations
🔴 2024's largest settlement: 3M to pay $12.5b for nationwide PFAS contamination of public water systems
Explore: violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org

By offense group, the 2024 breakdown:
🔴 Financial: $27.6 billion
🔴 Environment: $6.5 billion
🔴 Consumer protection: $5.3 billion
🔴 Safety: $4.3 billion
🔴 Healthcare: $4 billion
🔴 Competition: $3.6 billion
🔴 Government contracting: $2.6 billion
🔴 Employment: $551 million
🔴 Misc: $258 million

Our Violation Tracker update, which wraps up 2024, is now live 🚀
In all, we added 23,000 cases from federal, state, and local regulators totaling $81 billion in penalties.
🔴 2024's highest penalty: FTX Trading ordered to pay $12.7b for cryptocurrency scam
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