: money or aid given by the government to help a large company
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This outrageous corporate welfare bill would provide some of the world’s wealthiest corporations with massive state tax reductions to build monstrous resource-thirsty data centers.—Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 9 Mar. 2026 These over collected taxes are then directed to corporate welfare schemes the most egregious is Hollywood subsidies.—Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026 And while its social-welfare state was dismantled and degraded, its corporate welfare state survived and thrived, helping create the unequal metropolis Mamdani is called upon to govern.—Daniel Wortel-London, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026 To make such a rank exception for the AI industry is nothing less than corporate welfare, and should be treated as such.—Michael Kleinman, Time, 22 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