New York taxpayers are being asked to give a megadeveloper $801 million for 125 jobs - a cost of $6.4 million per job. $6.4 million for a probably benefit-less, temp job that won't pay enough to support themselves, let alone a family. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/04/d...

The case involves public records on corporate subsidies to Northrop Grumman to support its production of intercontinental ballistic missiles in Utah. cc @goodjobsfirst.org @econliberties.bsky.social @nuclearban.bsky.social

#NukeSky Want to watch @inkstickmedia.com in court against the world's largest nuclear weapons manufacturer, Northrop Grumman? Our hearing Friday at 9a MT is a virtual public courtroom, meaning anyone can join. utcourts.webex.com/utcourts/j.p... Background: inkstick.substack.com/p/our-journa...

"The audit also includes a more comprehensive evaluation of whether the subsidy influences company decision where to locate a project, known as a “but for” analysis. According to the audit, 70% of data center projects would have located in Georgia even without the subsidy" - @goodjobsfirst.org

Good question. “Elon Musk is like the wealthiest person alive,” said @goodjobsfirst.org's Kristan Wong Karinen. “He’s supposedly set to be the first trillionaire, so there’s an ethical question here about — I pay my taxes … so why does Elon Musk get a pass?” www.texastribune.org/2026/01/29/s...

If Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon and other tech giants had paid sales taxes on their data centers in 2025, Georgia could have hired 8,000 people to work in education, healthcare, and public safety. goodjobsfirst.org/clouded-judg...

The Trump administration’s retreat from child labor enforcement comes at a perilous time, as multiple states introduce legislation designed to weaken labor protections, write Todd Larsen & Reid Maki. Our children deserve better protections, not worse.

"A disturbing new analysis from Good Jobs First reveals that enforcement cases for a range of workplace violations declined by 97% percent last year... This isn’t bureaucratic negligence — it’s the systematic gutting of worker protections." otherwords.org/the-federal-...

More than half of companies claiming Ohio's Job Creation Tax Credit failed to create the new jobs and wages required, yet only 38% of failing companies faced any consequences, according to a new audit: goodjobsfirst.org/ohio-jctc-au...

This week, @mayor.nyc.gov stood with delivery drivers to take action against wage theft and worker exploitation. This lawsuit brought by @hellodcwp.bsky.social is not just an action against one company, it’s a warning to every app-based company from this Administration.

Exclusive🚨 One Year After Trump Vowed to Make America Great Again, Report Finds Workers Are Less Safe As federal funding, workplace inspections, and safety regulations decline, danger on the job is on the rise New for @documentedny.bsky.social documentedny.com/2026/01/21/o...

After Amazon fails to answer basic questions about its proposed data center, planning commissioners decline to vote on the project. Amazon's MO has long been to provide as little info as possible - elected officials and residents everywhere are saying enough. www.daytondailynews.com/news/amazon-...

According to @goodjobsfirst.org, at least 10 states are already losing more than $100 million each in revenue per year from data center tax breaks. That's money that could be going to education, infrastructure, or anything more useful than another data center. itep.org/states-are-o...

Why do states INSIST on giving tax breaks for data centers when evidence shows that most of these projects would get built either way? 🤯

Virginia lost $1.6 billion to data center tax breaks in FY 2025, an increase of 2,362% from 2017. Illinois failed to disclose its data center losses, and Georgia came out with fresh evidence tax breaks don't matter to data center siting decisions. Our latest: goodjobsfirst.org/virginia-tax...

The revenue that backs the bonds (which is what makes them attractive to bond buyers) doesn't come directly from stadium-induced consumption, it comes from a dedicated tax revenue stream that was expected to fund other things. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A FREE STADIUM.

Scheduling Chiefs games every Sunday (52 games) and Taylor Swift concerts every weekday (208 shows) might work, and everyone has Saturdays to support the rest of the economy.

To pay off $3B in STAR bonds, all increased future sales and liquor tax proceeds across much of two counties will be siphoned off to pay the Chiefs stadium bill; Kansans across the whole state will bear the cost of replacing that money in the state budget.

To pay off stadium bonds, Chiefs-related new spending would need to be $2.7B a year — for a team whose total revenue is less than a quarter of that. Each and every Chiefs fan would need to spend an extra $4,000 per game for Kansas to break even.

Power bills are sky-high, and data centers are to blame, right? Well, yes, but there's something else, upstream of the AI boom: a utility sector beholden to financial interests, resulting in massive corporate profits. I looked into this dynamic for @harpers.bsky.social harpers.org/archive/2026...

@markgmaurer.bsky.social on how FASB accounting rules lump together data center build outs with more rapidly depreciating chips, making the disclosures difficult to understand. www.wsj.com/articles/ai-...

"According to research by Good Jobs First, data center tax abatement cost Texas more than $1 billion in 2025...In 2024, Virginia tax exemptions also cost the state $1 billion. At least 10 states lose tax revenue in excess of $100 million per year to data centers..." www.governing.com/map-of-the-d...

The Trump administration is adopting policies that will expose workers to ever-more hazardous conditions. And as our new report cited here notes, enforcement of even existing policies drastically dropped in Trump's first nine months. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/o...

🚨Our new analysis reveals that enforcement levels for corporate crime have dropped in 2025🚨 We found drops in enforcement across- ↘️ Labour Market ↘️ Health and Safety ↘️ Fraud ↘️Consumer Protection ↘️ Environment ↘️ Financial Read more: goodjobsfirst.org/the-state-of...

The Trump administration is failing to protect workers. The Department of Labor isn't enforcing workers’ rights or fining companies for labor law violations — leaving workers to pay the price ⤵️

"Wage and hour penalties have decreased 94% during Trump’s second term; and workplace health and safety penalties have dropped 45%."

It matters to workers who is President: @goodjobsfirst.org reports that 2025 has witnessed a dramatic drop in federal enforcement of wage and workplace safety regulations. goodjobsfirst.org/worker-prote...

More evidence of the collapse of federal wage theft enforcement under Trump from @goodjobsfirst.org. See more details at goodjobsfirst.org/worker-prote...

NEW ANALYSIS: Federal regulatory agencies charged with enforcing wage and workplace safety conditions are taking drastically fewer actions against companies, and proposed rule changes by the administration will give workers even fewer protections. 🧵 goodjobsfirst.org/worker-prote...

🚨 Our latest report with @goodjobsfirst.org reveals that chemical pollution in the UK has reached crisis levels. The UK must prioritise urgent action to align regulation, increase transparency, and begin transitioning to a PFAS-free circular economy. Report here ➡️ goodjobsfirst.org/silent-conta...

1/4 🧵 This report from @goodjobsfirst.org should be a wake-up call for Louisiana. States are handing out massive subsidies to data centers — but almost none are tracking the costs or the outcomes. 📄 Cloudy Data, Costly Deals: goodjobsfirst.org/wp-content/u...

NEW ANALYSIS: Tax abatements for developers are costing St. Louis public schools *tens of millions* of dollars every year! Black, Brown, and working class families are getting hit the hardest 😡

The solution? Protect our schools from tax abatements, give our families a say-so in the decisions that affect our lives, and STOP all subsidies to data centers. 🔗 Read the full report from @goodjobsfirst.org at GoodJobsFirst.org #MOworkers

“When federal contractors get state and local tax breaks, we consider that to be double-dipping,” Greg LeRoy told the Investigative Post. “Why should state and local taxpayers make their profit margins bigger?” www.investigativepost.org/2025/12/11/a...

#Instacart users may be paying wildly different prices—on the same groceries—according to a new study. Here's what to know if you use the online grocery delivery and pickup service. My latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91458229/wan...

One company promised 400 high-paying jobs; it delivered 26 jobs that paid an average annual wage of $38,000. It got the taxpayer subsidy anyway. #DataCenters www.techpolicy.press/michigan-off...

One company promised 400 high-paying jobs; it delivered 26 jobs that paid an average annual wage of $38,000. It got the taxpayer subsidy anyway. www.techpolicy.press/michigan-off...

Just released! @goodjobsfirst.org report on revenue lost to tax breaks in the STL area. Updated with 2024 data. #ACFR2024 “We say: shield school taxes from abatements, give districts a say on TIFs, and curb data-center subsidies.” #EndSubsidySecrecy #WhatOurStudentsLose #IncentiveReform

NEW ANALYSIS: St. Louis-area tax abatements, especially TIF, have cost public schools $380M in 8 yrs. Losses have grown significantly. In FY 24, it hit $70M. We say: shield school taxes from abatements, give districts a say on TIFs, and curb data-center subsidies. goodjobsfirst.org/increasing-s...

Meet our longtime researcher Kasia Tarczynska, whose passion for fair, community-led economic development drives her work. From rural Poland to Chicago to D.C., she’s spent years exposing how corporate subsidies drain money from schools and communities. goodjobsfirst.org/5-questions-...

We too often look at prices when talking about affordability & not enough at wages. As Harold Meyerson explains, had the bottom 90% earned the same share of national income they did in 1975, by 2023 they would have made an additional $79 trillion! prospect.org/2025/12/03/7...

12. The reality can be seen in the data: In Berkeley County, WV, the schools spent $1.3 million with Amazon — and only $142 went to in-state sellers. The vast majority of the district’s spending went to Amazon itself or to overseas vendors.

4. Amazon’s pricing algorithms continuously adjust what governments pay. The result is wild swings: one city bought a 12-pack of Sharpie markers for $8.99. A nearby school district paid $28.63 for the same pack that same day. Our data contain thousands of these examples.

1. Amazon has become a major force in how cities, counties & schools buy basic supplies. Our new report finds Amazon is using opaque pricing algorithms to drive up costs and eliminate transparency—while harming competition by pushing out better-performing independent suppliers.

“The fact that we are subsidizing (data centers) to the tune of billions of dollars to build something that they already need and they’re going to build anyway...that is an extremely wasteful use of taxpayer dollars,” GJF's Anthony Elmo told @notus.com www.notus.org/technology/d...

Our work on data centers in the @nytimes.com. The facilities are heavy water/energy users, and often the big companies behind them get huge taxpayer subsidies. In many states, transparency is so bad the public can't see just how much $ they're giving companies. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...

AI pricing is here, and you’re paying for it. Corporations are raking in record profits by using AI to set prices based on personal data — and loyal customers end up paying the most. “It is a well-oiled extraction machine.” From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/PKHo6he

Good Jobs First Founder Greg LeRoy is stepping down as executive director. Help us find a great candidate to lead this incredible organization! Details on the job and how to apply: www.idealist.org/en/job/ad148...

NEW UPGRADES: Subsidy Tracker now features enhanced search options, including industry-level filters and multi-select government levels to search awards by state or local programs only. We also just added 6,884 new entries totaling at least $7.1B in subsidies. goodjobsfirst.org/new-search-f...

Records show that Raytheon was able to claim tax refunds for jobs it didn’t create and bypass public comment for new grants in North Carolina. inkstickmedia.com/special-trea...