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#subsidies
  • Wal-Mart Holds Another Food Drive for Its Impoverished Workers
    November 20, 2014
    | Joshua Holland
    Tis the season for one of the country's biggest welfare queens.
  • Morning Reads: Obamacare Is Probably Safe; Tea Partiers Then and Now
    July 23, 2014
    A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ...
  • Economy & Work
    The Bad Boss Tax
    July 21, 2014
    | Sarah Jaffe
    Workers at Target, Wal-Mart and McDonald’s need food stamps to survive. Should the companies be taxed accordingly?
  • The Real Cost of Corporate Tax Dodgers
    May 30, 2014
    | Karin Kamp
    You know those people who always take and never give back? Economist Joseph E. Stiglitz says that's exactly how many of our top corporations are behaving, by paying virtually no taxes whatsoever.
  • Ten Examples of Welfare for Corporations and the Ultra-Rich
    January 16, 2014
    | Bill Quigley
    We spend a fortune in welfare for those comfortably at the top.
  • Are Taxpayers Paying for Wall Street Execs' Bloated Bonuses?
    December 27, 2013
    Two headline-grabbing numbers suggest we're picking up the tab for a good chunk.
  • One in Three Bank Tellers Need Public Assistance
    December 4, 2013
    A new study finds that we're subsidizing banks' profits by keeping their low-wage workforce out of poverty.
  • Obamacare's Subsidies: We're All Makers and Takers
    November 11, 2013
    | Joshua Holland
    Americans subsidize each other all the time and the biggest beneficiaries are the middle class and the wealthy.
  • US Families Pay $6K Annually in Big Business Subsidies
    September 24, 2013
    | Paul Buchheit
    See the ways in which ways taxpayers are unwittingly contributing to corporations' bottom lines.
  • Why Subsidize Billionaire Team Owners?
    September 13, 2013 | Group Think
    "With billionaire team owners and an amazing fan base, stadium building seems like the kind of thing the private market should handle on its own," argues the head of the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute.


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