Interesting and highly relevant account of how Amazon has responded to criticism by increasing wages at the bottom. Next on the list: paying its taxes!
Amazon is set to receive around $4.6 billion in corporate welfare from the US taxpayer, reports Good Jobs First. These subsidies are used by states to entice Amazon to locate operations and investment within their […]
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 […]
In a perhaps surprising popular uprising against corporate welfare in the United States, the Guardian reports that community and activist groups across the nation are speaking out in opposition to the massive tax incentives that some states […]
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