Good Jobs First

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Good Jobs First has since 1998 been a leading watchdog on economic development subsidies. We also expose corporate crimes. site: www.goodjobsfirst.org trackers: goodjobsfirst.org/databases newsletter: www.goodjobsfirst.org/subscribe

“It’s the biggest capital expenditure since the Manhattan Project, and it isn’t going to create tens of thousands of jobs in the long term,” Good Jobs First’s Anthony Elmo told The Verge. “It’s not some economic boom. Meta, Amazon,OpenAI, Oracle, they’re shedding jobs in real time while spending billionson data centers so that other organizations can shed additional jobs through AI. At some point, people need to ask more critical questions about this.”
Report cover, Data Center Tax Abatements: Why States and Localities Must Disclose These Soaring Revenue Losses
Table 1: How States Do or Do Not Disclose Revenue Losses from Data Center Sales and Use Tax Abatement Programs
I cannot think of an industry less in need of tax incentives. AI is so problematic for so many reasons. Why would we also allow it to defund our public schools, health care, and safety? - quote by Good Jobs First Executive Director Greg LeRoy
Image of a large data center in the foreground and many homes immediately behind it. This is in Loudoun County, Virginia.
Announcement that Dr. Allan Freyer has been hired as Good Jobs First's new executive director. He succeeds Greg LeRoy, who founded GJF In 1998. Image of a white man smiling with glasses on. He has a beard and mustache and short dark brown hair. He is wearing a black jacket over a checkered shirt.
Outrage on the Rouge River: Big Polluters Defund Segregated, Low-Income Communities in Michigan
Oversight on Thin ICE: Inside the Companies Enforcing Federal Immigration Policy. There is a collage showing immigration over the years and the Statue of Liberty
Oversight on Thin ICE Inside the Companies Enforcing Federal Immigration Policy
Cloudy Data, Costly Deals: How Poorly States Disclose Data Center Subsidies is written on a tech like looking map of the United States
Cloudy Data, Costly Deals: How Poorly States Disclose Data Center Subsidies is written on a tech like looking map of the United States
Chart has this text: Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding. Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Elon Musk’s wealth.
A chart of Violation Tracker with the following language: In 2024, we added to Violation Tracker: 23,000 civil and criminal cases totaling $81 billion in penalties Biggest fine: FTX Trading ordered to pay $12.7 billion for cryptocurrency scam Biggest class-action settlement: 3M ordered to pay $12.5 billion for PFAS contamination of public water systems
Screenshot of various economic development incentives Amazon has received, as detailed by Good Jobs First's Amazon Tracker, a database that collects Amazon subsidies.