- Six of the seven GOP senators who shot down fellow Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's proposal to insure 280,000 low-income Tennesseans with federal dollars have their own state government-subsidized insurance through the Tennessee employees' insurance plan, records show. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/politics/state/story/2015/feb/05/6-7-senators-who-shot-down-insure-tn-have-state-subsidied-healthcare/286674/ 116 comments politics
- As Workers Strike Against Low Wages, Fast-Food CEOs Fatten Pockets with Taxpayer-Subsidized Pay http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/5/as_workers_strike_against_low_wages 5 comments politics
- Fast Food CEOs Rake in Taxpayer-Subsidized Pay http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/fast-food_ceos_rake_in_taxpayer-subsidized_pay 30 comments politics
- Teabagger says: I hate my highly-subsidized, socialist health plan. http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/08/26/sad_tea_party_guy/index.html 47 comments politics
- President Joe Biden awarded Intel nearly $20 billion in grants and loans on Wednesday, marking the U.S. government's largest outlay to subsidize leading-edge chip production and supercharging the company's domestic semiconductor chip output. https://apnews.com/article/biden-intel-computer-chips-arizona-ohio-658029c7ecda43c0a1d18c4f0a6529fc 29 comments politics
- A Tax Credit Was Meant to Help Marginalized Workers Get Permanent Jobs. Instead It’s Subsidizing Temp Work | Many top recipients of the credit have long records of labor violations https://www.propublica.org/article/work-opportunity-tax-credit-temp-permanent-employment 3 comments politics
- Germany’s €9 Monthly Train Pass Has Proved Popular (and a Pleasant Surprise) • To help offset inflation, Germany’s government has subsidized cheap train passes this summer. While many feared chaos and overcrowding on an overburdened system, it has been a relatively smooth ride. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/world/europe/germanys-trains-9euro-pass.html 11 comments europes
- [Polizze] Tarik Skubal has been shut down for the remainder of the season with an elbow injury. “We’re concerned about Tarik,” AJ Hinch said. Skubal is currently in Los Angeles to seek a second opinion after inflammation did not subside from his last start August 1. https://www.mlb.com/news/tarik-skubal-shut-down-for-2022-season-left-arm-injury 36 comments baseball
- Senate passes bill to subsidize U.S.-made semiconductor chips https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/27/senate-chips-funding-bill-pass/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjI0MTE3NjY0IiwicmVhc29uIjoiZ2lmdCIsIm5iZiI6MTY1ODk0MjQ2MSwiaXNzIjoic3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ucyIsImV4cCI6MTY2MDE1MjA2MSwiaWF0IjoxNjU4OTQyNDYxLCJqdGkiOiI5ODM1ODE0Ny01YTI1LTQ3ZmQtOTQ5Yy1mODA5NmU4ZjNjY2MiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vcG9saXRpY3MvMjAyMi8wNy8yNy9zZW5hdGUtY2hpcHMtZnVuZGluZy1iaWxsLXBhc3MvIn0.2V-YITHbLNZeJuvpciM7eAJnPRtDQKPHvgDbic6UFuA 11 comments politics
- Explain why in a supposedly capitalist system, big companies are being subsidized with billions of government money, not to re-invest, but only to buy their own stocks and make their shareholders and CEOs richer, while the working class people are left alone, struggling harder and harder to survive. https://twitter.com/failedevolution/status/1552167254913056768 47 comments economy
- Affordable Care Act exchanges seeing record interest in heavily subsidized 2022 coverage https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/09/politics/affordable-care-act-open-enrollment/index.html 16 comments politics
- Who’s Subsidizing This Bitcoin Miner IPO? You Are. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-08-27/taxpayers-subsidize-bitcoin-miner-stronghold-digital-s-ipo?srnd=premium 6 comments energy
- As pandemic subsides, businesses push Congress for one more bailout https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/19/businesses-lobby-billions-pandemic-aid-495171 21 comments politics
- Japan to subsidize 100% of salaries at small companies https://asia.nikkei.com/economy/japan-to-subsidize-100-of-salaries-at-small-companies 5 comments worldnews
- Carbon Taxes Alone Aren’t Good Climate Policy: Gernot Wagner - To drive down tomorrow’s CO₂ emissions, governments need to subsidize fossil fuel alternatives, too. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-06/carbon-taxes-alone-aren-t-good-climate-policy-gernot-wagner?amp%3B_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_LOKMTifQRBOyBKPfIteUS614oCgKv8wxXXYWRlw9J4Stw6ifvRROkHzjepBEiKsCMLVEHZfTHOdXcs7_TqT3KXqYXlw&%3B_hsmi=83045765&%3Butm_content=83045765&%3Butm_medium=email&%3Butm_source=hs_email 12 comments climate
- UK Windpower goes beyond no longer needing subsidy; it's now got so cheap, it can subsidize the rest of the grid. https://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/1660164/price-cannibalisation-warning-uk-tender 4 comments europe
- Medical marijuana user, 78, evicted from subsidized housing https://wbng.com/news/new-york-news-from-the-associated-press/2018/12/07/78-year-old-mans-eviction-shows-medical-marijuana-conflict/ 9 comments politics
- Trump and the NFL Agree: Taxpayers Should Keep Subsidizing Stadiums http://reason.com/blog/2017/12/19/trump-and-the-nfl-agree-taxpayers-should?utm_medium=email 18 comments politics
- Venezuela Protesters Set 40 Tons of Subsidized Food on Fire http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/venezuela-protesters-set-40-tons-of-subsidized-food-on-fire-20170630-0017.html 16 comments worldnews
- Atlassian is making a $1M donation to Coursera, Women Who Code, and CODE2040 - subsidizes 50% of Coursera computer science courses for all http://blogs.atlassian.com/2016/06/future-depends-on-more-software-developers/ 97 comments webdev
- An array of GPS instruments near the San Andreas Fault System has discovered nearly 125 mile-wide “lobes” of uplift and subsidence—a few millimeters of motion each year—straddling the fault system. This large scale motion was previously predicted in models but until now had not been documented. http://www.hawaii.edu/news/2016/06/20/new-analysis-reveals-large-scale-motion-around-san-andreas-fault-system/ 13 comments science
- Germany to subsidize electric cars to help own auto industry https://www.yahoo.com/tech/germany-subsidize-electric-cars-help-094107836.html 3 comments europe
- Police Brutality in 2016 Hasn't Subsided. So where is the outrage? http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-police-brutality-hasn-subsided-outrage-article-1.2544706 13 comments politics
- Former Surgeon General: "Stop Using Our Poor to Subsidize Private Prison Industries." http://marijuanapolitics.com/former-surgeon-general-stop-using-poor-subsidize-private-prison-industries/ 11 comments politics
- Putin hopes for a brighter future for Russia through plans to subsidize organic food production and incentivize higher birthrates https://www.rt.com/op-edge/324761-russia-putin-parliamentary-address-turkey/ 103 comments europe
- Oil companies are subsidized at 10 million a minute. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/18/fossil-fuel-companies-getting-10m-a-minute-in-subsidies-says-imf?cmp=share_btn_link 12 comments worldnews
- Netflix Should Subsidize Public TV, According to Canadian Public TV http://motherboard.vice.com/read/netflix-should-subsidize-public-tv-according-to-canadian-public-tv 8 comments technology
- Report: Taxpayers Subsidize Anti-Science Curriculum In 14 States http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/report-school-choice-subsidizes-anti-science-curriculum 8 comments science
- Do cities gain from subsidizing sports teams? Funding is often cut for parks and libraries to help teams pay their bills http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/8/21/pay-to-play.html?=1 5 comments politics
- Glenn Beck Wants To Make YOU Pay For His Conspiracy Broadcast Network: It "would force every cable customer to subsidize Beck’s right-wing conspiracy mongering." http://www.newscorpse.com/ncwp/?p=9188 14 comments politics
- "States subsidize religions to the tune of about $26.2 billion per year by not requiring religious institutions to pay property taxes for property worth about $600 billion" http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=fi&page=cragun_32_4 8 comments politics
- A team of geodesists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has released a paper contradicting reports that Venice had stopped sinking. In fact it's subsiding faster than ever. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-03/30/sink-venice-sink 4 comments science
- Got cable, you help subsidize the hate from Fox News http://tweetbe.at/progressives/trend/1mqdi-viewers/ 65 comments politics
- Tax incentives — a collection of deductions, write-offs and credits mostly devised for other industries in other eras — now make video game production one of the most highly subsidized businesses in the United States http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/technology/rich-tax-breaks-bolster-video-game-makers.html?src=me&ref=general 7 comments business
- The striking Verizon workers all work in the landline business, which is declining. They're demanding that the nonunion wireless business subsidize them. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/08/the-incredible-shrinking-union/243761/ 5 comments business
- Tax Soda, Subsidize Vegetables http://mobile.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/opinion/sunday/24bittman.xml 5 comments reddit.com
- Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/opinion/sunday/24bittman.html 239 comments business
- there are more than 100 corporate subsidy programs... on the books, including vast sums for the agribusiness giants, the sugar industry & other business biggies, especially global firms. ...research grants, subsidized insurance & loans, even payments to foreigners who buy from U.S. corporations. http://blog.nj.com/njv_john_farmer/2010/04/still_steamed_about_taxes_now.html 3 comments politics
- Corporate America, Ground Your Jets--The American taxpayer, reeling from the economic meltdown, doesn't feel like subsidizing lavish jets and bonuses any more http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/128057 4 comments politics
- Why do we have to subsidize Detroit so that it will innovate? What business are carmakers in other than innovation? http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/opinion/12friedman.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink 29 comments business