In-work benefits and poverty
Article by Andrew Grice in the Independent about the growing costs of in-work benefits
So-called in-work poverty soars by 59% under Coalition
Corporate welfare General
Maryland offers landmark $8.5bn incentives package to Amazon for HQ2
The state of Maryland in the US has amassed an $8.5bn incentives package for Amazon, hoping to land the company’s HQ2 in the suburbs outside Washington, D.C. The Hill reports that this is one of the […]
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PMQs debating how benefits operate to ‘subsidise’ low-paying employers
In my report on the British Corporate Welfare State, I pointed out that tax credits and housing benefits subsidise employers. In the report, I estimate that tax credits and housing benefits make up almost half […]
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The connections between tax credits, wage rates and corporate taxes…
Corporate welfare should be viewed in-the-round One of the criticisms made of The British Corporate Welfare State was that wage subsidies do not function as corporate welfare. The evidence on the effects of wage subsidies is, […]
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