Comms+ at @goodjobsfirst, the nation's corporate welfare/corporate behavior watchdog. Past: @usatoday @mcall @vcstar @latimes. Bilingüe. Views my own.
Arlene Martínez
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It's not too late to apply! Looking forward to being part of this amazing conference.
Georgia spent about $1.69 a day per person in prison in 2024, and has proposed to spend $1.60 a day in 2027 — less than $.60 per meal.
The Food and Drug Administration’s “thrifty plan” estimates that feeding an adult man “a nutritious, practical, cost-effective diet” costs about $10 per day.
Excited to be joined at #IRE26 by a cracker jack group of reporters sharing tips on covering the growing corporate influence. Learn how to dig into behavior and relationships, even when you're on deadline. Join us Thurs, June 18 at 2:30 p.m.!
And don't forget to stop by the @goodjobsfirst.org table!
Arlene Martínez
It's 95 degrees in Cambridge today. If you can't imagine
spending time outside, imagine being a worker on a shift with
no heat standards at your outdoor job. It's dangerous and it's
preventable. Check out our latest report with @groundwork.bsky.social
clje.law.harvard.edu/extreme-heat...
🚨NEW ANALYSIS🚨 14 states and scores of localities fail to disclose how much revenue they lose to data center tax breaks. Yet such losses are known to be soaring in states that do disclose, with three states already losing $1 billion or more per year. 🧵
goodjobsfirst.org/data-center-...
NEW: At least 88 corporations paid $0 in federal income tax in 2025.
That's despite collectively earning more than $105 billion in U.S. income.
The list includes Tesla, Palantir, Live Nation Entertainment, Coinbase, United Airlines, Walt Disney, and more.
itep.org/88-profitabl...
The Marshall Project
Arlene Martínez
More great news from GEO Group, one of the big prison companies running Trump's immigrant concentration camps. First quarter revenue increased 17 percent to $705.2 million and guidance for 2026 is up up up. Execs expect revenue to clock in between $2.95 billion and $3.10 billion this year.
Gosh, if only there was 50 years of research on this subject, which had reached a definitive conclusion that public stadiums are universally awful public investments....
We used to wait in a line at the ticket office. Now we bid on our phones.
The cheapest World Cup opener tickets would cost the average family the equivalent of 7 months of health care premiums.
@lindsayowens.bsky.social on how dynamic pricing turned buying a ticket into an auction.
"Like Musk, Jack Dorsey, and Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman has benefited greatly from a U.S. tech press pathologically obsessed with mythologizing terrible white men with a lot of money." - @karlbode.com:
Announcing three sessions for the 2026 Strategic Labor Research Conference 📣
From analyzing ICE’s local consequences to uncovering hidden public subsidies, this lineup offers practical skills for researchers.
🚨 Applications close May 15
📝 Apply and learn more: irle.ucla.edu/research/ucl...
