corporate subsidies
May 2, 2012 -
A watchdog group has filed a petition with North Carolina regulators seeking to change the way the power giant sets its rates, which dramatically favor energy-hungry data centers run by well-heeled companies like Google, Apple and Facebook over residential customers and small businesses.
April 3, 2012 -
The recent Senate vote to maintain oil company subsidies didn't fall just along party lines -- it also fell along money lines.
February 6, 2012 -
Why is a corporation that may soon have a market value of $100 billion persuading struggling communities like Rutherford County, N.C. to fork over taxpayer-financed subsidies?
January 18, 2012 -
The frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination speaks out against government dependency, but companies acquired by his Bain Capital firm sought taxpayer handouts in the form of subsidies from local governments and states including Louisiana, North Carolina and Florida.
December 19, 2011 -
A new report from Good Jobs First makes the case that state programs offering corporations financial incentives to keep or create jobs need tougher oversight.
July 28, 2006 -
Until 2004, North Carolina was considered a fairly stingy state when it came to "development subsidies" -- the over $50 billion a year in tax breaks and other give-aways that states and localities pay to attract business.
September 28, 2005 -
Yesterday's news that the Supreme Court will be hearing DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno -- the landmark case out of Ohio about corporate subsidies -- was big news about one of the biggest issues facing state and local governments today.