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Amazon Subsidy Tracker: How Taxpayer Subsidies Help Build its Monopoly

Amazon Subsidy Tracker: How Taxpayer Subsidies Help Build its Monopoly

Amazon.com, Inc. is growing rapidly, thanks in no small part to its aggressive strategy for getting tax breaks. Indeed, it has been getting about 20 economic development subsidy packages a year since 2012 for its warehouses and data centers—over $4 billion and counting as of May 2021. Good Jobs First has published extensively on Amazon (as we […]

Amazon settles with tech workers fired for Corona virus, climate criticism

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Amazon settles with tech workers fired for Corona virus, climate criticism

SEATTLE — Amazon settled a long-running dispute with two former tech workers it fired after they criticized the company for its climate policies and warehouse safety record, avoiding a hearing that would have put a spotlight on strained relations with some employees. The e-commerce giant was set to face Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa in […]

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Big Corporations Shouldn’t Get Tax Breaks to Create Jobs

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Big Corporations Shouldn’t Get Tax Breaks to Create Jobs

By Jim Hightower — Governors and mayors insist that giving our tax dollars to corporations in form of big tax breaks to lure them to move to our cities is good public policy. The corporations create jobs, those workers pay taxes, and — voila! — the giveaway pays for itself! Does it really work that […]

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Amazon Warehouse Workers Forced To Wait At Security Off The Clock

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Amazon Warehouse Workers Forced To Wait At Security Off The Clock

By STEVEN HSIEH, AlterNet— After spending 12 hours a day packing boxes, Amazon warehouse workers must wait at security checkpoints for up to 25 minutes without pay before going home, the Huffington Post reports. Nevada workers Jesse Busk and Laurie Castro are leading a class-action lawsuit against Integrity Staffing Solutions, which finds workers for Amazon, for uncompensated […]

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IMDb Lawsuit Shows Age Discrimination Kills Acting Careers

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IMDb Lawsuit Shows Age Discrimination Kills Acting Careers

Age discrimination is rampant, but no where is it more apparent than the entertainment business. In the old days, actors and especially actresses, could manipulate their birth dates and get away with obfuscation. Actors and actresses could also be considered for roles playing characters much younger than their actual ages. But this is the 21st […]

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