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Six on "our" Economy: The Real Cost of Cheap Shirts; Do Taxpayers Know They Are Handing Out Billions to Corporations?; A Plutocratic Coup, The Wall Street Putsch of 1933; Billionaire Dan Loeb Gives $15 Million to Eva’s Success Academy for More High Schools; the Best (and Worst) Cities to Make a Living; The Trump Administration Is Letting Wells Fargo Get Away with Grand Theft Auto

Factory workers in Bangladesh toil for low wages and under precarious conditions to make clothing worn worldwide.

Opinion | The Real Cost of Cheap Shirts

Opinion | The Real Cost of Cheap Shirts Factory workers in Bangladesh toil for low wages and under precarious conditions to make clothing worn worldwide.

A Plutocratic Coup, The Wall Street Putsch of 1933.

"The Wall Street Putsch of 1933. The financial establishment — along with its media and political henchmen — rushed out to bury the story and protect the gentlemen of Wall Street implicated in the part. It's a heck of a story about capitalist skullduggery by a few Lords of Wealth trying to overthrow the government and enthrone a fascist regime friendly to them."

A Plutocratic Coup, by Jim Hightower

A Plutocratic Coup, by Jim Hightower Many Americans are reluctant to accept that coup conspiracies are part of country's history. We tend believe th...

Billionaire Dan Loeb Gives $15 Million to Eva’s Success Academy for More High Schools

Billionaire Dan Loeb Gives $15 Million to Eva’s Success Academy for More High Schools

Billionaire Dan Loeb Gives $15 Million to Eva’s Success Academy for More... Eva Moskowitz just received a gift of $15 million from billionaire Dan Loeb, chair of the board of Eva’s Success...

This Map will Show You the Best (and Worst) Cities to Make a Living

This Map will Show You the Best (and Worst) Cities to Make a Living

This Map will Show You the Best (and Worst) Cities to Make a Living Companies determine how much they pay their employees based on the local labor market. Our new map analyzes medi...

The Trump Administration Is Letting Wells Fargo Get Away with Grand Theft Auto

The Trump Administration Is Letting Wells Fargo Get Away with Grand Theft Auto

The Trump Administration Is Letting Wells Fargo Get Away with Grand Thef... The recent fine assessed by the CFPB is window-dressing on a miscarriage of justice.

Do Taxpayers Know They Are Handing Out Billions to Corporations?

"Every year, states and local governments give economic-development incentives to companies to the tune of between $45 billion and $80 billion. Why such a wide range? It’s not sloppy research; it’s because many of these subsidies are not public.

For the known subsidies, such as Maryland’s recent $8.5 billion incentive bid for Amazon’s second headquarters, the support includes cash grants for company relocations, subsidized land, forgiving company taxes on everything from property taxes to sales taxes and investments in infrastructure for the company. Maryland is even offering to give 5.75 percent of each worker’s salary back to the company, which is the maximum state income tax rate for individuals. Employees will pay taxes that will be routed back to Amazon.

Maryland OKs $8.5 billion in incentives to lure Amazon, biggest offer in... Erin Cox Maryland approved a $8.5 billion incentive package to lure Amazon and its HQ2 project to the state, the largest ...

Maryland legislators approve record-breaking package to lure Amazon https://www.facebook.com/ovetta.wiggins Total incentives of up to $8.5 billion would be largest known offer; some decry “corporate welfare.”

Maryland Income Tax Rates and Brackets

To be clear, Maryland isn’t a model of transparency. Its offer is known not because the state made its bid public, but because these extreme incentives required special legislation. The legislature didn’t call it the Amazon Bill. They called it the Prime Act, which is a tortured acronym from “Promoting ext-Raordinary Innovation in Maryland’s Economy Program.” The bill was revealed only after an initial offer was made to the company.

Maryland approves billions in Amazon incentives Reid Wilson President Trump may not be a fan of Amazon and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, but Maryland Gov.

Here’s What Montgomery County Highlighted in Its Bid for Amazon’s Second... Recruitment package touted area; specific economic enticements redacted in released documents

Economic development all across the country is getting less open — and both Democrats and Republicans are doing it. In fact, in many cases, the politicians themselves aren’t even the ones negotiating for the public."

Opinion | Do Taxpayers Know They Are Handing Out Billions to Corporations?

Opinion | Do Taxpayers Know They Are Handing Out Billions to Corporations? Your local government is probably hiding billion-dollar giveaways in the name of economic competitiveness.