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NEW: At least 10 states lose over $100 million per year in tax revenue to data centers. The loss of revenue is surely worse than we can yet document — of the 32 states with data center tax incentives, 12 fail to disclose even *aggregate* revenue losses. 👇🏾 goodjobsfirst.org/runaway-data-c…

Gosh, if only someone had warned this might happen. Again, it's time to stop taking these economic impact "projections" seriously. ajc.com/business/2026/…

We sat down with IBEW Local 24's Rico Albacarys to discuss data center construction jobs, tax breaks, community benefits, and what a more accountable data center deal should look like. Read our 5-question interview: goodjobsfirst.org/data-center-su…

New peer-reviewed research finds NY school districts serving more students of color tend to bear heavier losses from tax breaks. Yet school districts have no power to say no to the deals giving away their revenue. More about this new research:  goodjobsfirst.org/ida-tax-abatem…

Studies now present a striking picture of what happens when private equity firms acquire hospitals and nursing homes: predictable increases in harm and deaths. One landmark study shows: patient deaths up about 11% after such acquisitions.

A sign of how the politics of data centers have quickly shifted. Sherrod Brown up with an ad attacking Husted as the “face of data centers.”

"When states award large tax breaks to attract companies, they may actually be encouraging more lobbying instead of real economic growth...these programs may inadvertently foster crony capitalism and wasteful lobbying rather than the genuine economic development they promise."

In @ConversationUS, a piece on the difficulty of getting companies behind data centers to fully pay for all the energy they're using. And if they don't pay for it, guess who does? We do. theconversation.com/it-may-be-almo…

Michigan was promised more than 20,000 new jobs. It got 602. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer offered $2.7 billion in subsidies for eight major projects. The state has already spent $1.8 billion in taxpayer money, all for 3% of the promised jobs writes @JamesHohman in @DetNewsOpinion detroitnews.com/story/opinion/…

New reporting reveals that executives from America’s three biggest egg producers began colluding to keep egg prices high in 2022. Executives from Cal-Maine Foods, Hickman’s, and Versova spoke of the phone phone and messaged to coordinate bids and trading on eggs. While these producers blamed avian flu, they were actively and illegally collaborating to keep the price of eggs high. wsj.com/business/retai…

State lawmakers are moving to pause, cancel and reform data center tax breaks that are causing gaping - and unexpected - holes in their budgets. But lest you fret for Big Tech, they can still get massive federal tax breaks and other goodies. businessmodelanalyst.com/data-center-ta…

New corporate transparency rules are giving us a clearer picture of offshore tax havens. Microsoft’s latest disclosure shows just 3% of the company’s full-time employees were in Ireland last year, but they somehow generated 38% of worldwide profits. itep.org/microsoft-tax-…

Michigan spent $1.8 billion and only created 602 jobs. reason.com/2026/06/26/mic…

The EEOC has historically enforced discrimination based on protected characteristics such as race and gender. But under the Trump Administration, it has shifted to a focus on enforcing anti-DEI practices and "anti-Christian bias." goodjobsfirst.org/a-new-era-at-t…

Instead of having Louisiana residents send even more money to Meta as it chases wild AI profits, Meta should pay for its own energy and pay all the same taxes other residents pay. Meta doesn't just want energy subsidies - the profitable giant wants to pay no taxes.

"Private investors capture youth sports by rolling up competitors and dozens of acquisitions and vertically integrating to capture the entire ecosystem [...] The participation gap between poorer and wealthier households is widening as parents struggle to make ends meet."

For years, the drug chains were in a real estate arms race, overbuilding everywhere. Now the cost of that is coming due: Dollar General is taking over empty Rite Aids, a move that bypasses planning review. Our country, overrun with predatory dollar stores, will be even more so.

Michigan is preparing to dedicate significant land, water, electricity, and public support to a massive data center. Before doing so, shouldn't the state take a closer look at the private equity giant financing roughly 90% of the project? Read our latest op-ed in Michigan Advance: michiganadvance.com/2026/06/15/sho…

A price of shoes changing six times between the shelf and the check out counter isn't a glitch. It's corporate America's new pricing playbook and WalMart is at the vanguard. But WalMart isn't alone, as our @owenslindsay1 explains.

New research from Allan M. Freyer, Ph.D., IPS scholar @MarcBayard, and @DevWakeley of @AlabamaArise: ips-dc.org/report-alterna…

NEW: In Alabama, just a $25 million investment in public transit could unlock more funds that would ripple across its economy. This could create 2,561 new jobs, improve worker pay by a combined $120 million, and generate $207 million(!) in new GDP. Strong transit = good jobs.