December 2020 Posts
Dec
16
2020
Taxpayer subsidies to Amazon now exceed $3.7 billion
Good Jobs First’s latest tally of economic development subsidies given to Amazon.com finds state and local governments have given the retail behemoth more than $3.7 billion. How much more is becoming increasingly hard to tell.
Dec
10
2020
WORKPLACE WARNINGS: The Need for a New and Improved Paycheck Protection Program
More than 190,000 American workers have been laid off since March across 1,900 companies that received loans through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The companies intended to support 251,000 workers – instead, they laid off 76 percent of them. About one in eight of those workers lost their jobs permanently.