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To make such a rank exception for the AI industry is nothing less than corporate welfare, and should be treated as such.
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Michael Kleinman, Time, 22 Nov. 2025
The project has sparked immense online discourse and public attendance at city meetings in recent months, with many saying the TIF amounts to corporate welfare for companies worth hundreds of billions of dollars that are pursuing a technology that has no guardrails.
—Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 19 Nov. 2025
Supporters have consistently cast the plan as vital to keep the teams, while opponents frame stadium subsidies as corporate welfare for rich team owners.
—Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2025
The report highlights progress around environmental sustainability, cultural preservation, corporate welfare, and gender equality (the group obtained Gender Equality Certification in 2024).
—Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2025
The man shows him Union Minière’s company housing, its doctors, hospitals, and nurseries — echoes of Fordlândia and of the corporate welfare programs that companies like Kodak offered as a substitute for a closed shop.
—Big Think, 26 Aug. 2025
Sanders has long criticized the CHIPS Act as corporate welfare for some of the world’s most profitable technology companies.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2025
The Trump administration is curtailing corporate welfare for renewables, and other countries such as Germany are pulling back.
—Peter Murphy, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2025
That points toward the need to cut spending on, among other things, corporate welfare, economically distorting subsidies, flashy infrastructure gimmicks, and Social Security and Medicare.
—Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 1 Aug. 2025
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Michael Kleinman, Time, 22 Nov. 2025
The project has sparked immense online discourse and public attendance at city meetings in recent months, with many saying the TIF amounts to corporate welfare for companies worth hundreds of billions of dollars that are pursuing a technology that has no guardrails.
—Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 19 Nov. 2025
Supporters have consistently cast the plan as vital to keep the teams, while opponents frame stadium subsidies as corporate welfare for rich team owners.
—Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2025
The report highlights progress around environmental sustainability, cultural preservation, corporate welfare, and gender equality (the group obtained Gender Equality Certification in 2024).
—Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2025
The man shows him Union Minière’s company housing, its doctors, hospitals, and nurseries — echoes of Fordlândia and of the corporate welfare programs that companies like Kodak offered as a substitute for a closed shop.
—Big Think, 26 Aug. 2025
Sanders has long criticized the CHIPS Act as corporate welfare for some of the world’s most profitable technology companies.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2025
The Trump administration is curtailing corporate welfare for renewables, and other countries such as Germany are pulling back.
—Peter Murphy, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2025
That points toward the need to cut spending on, among other things, corporate welfare, economically distorting subsidies, flashy infrastructure gimmicks, and Social Security and Medicare.
—Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 1 Aug. 2025
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“Corporate welfare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/corporate%20welfare. Accessed 22 Dec. 2025.
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