Corporations
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Corporate Welfare Link
Executive Paywatch
Multinational Corporate Monitor
"Corporations have been enthroned...An era of corruption
in high places will follow and the money power will
endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices
of the people...until wealth is aggregated in a few hands...
and the Republic is destroyed." --Abraham Lincoln, 1865
This is a list of the 8 corporate welfare recipients that were listed in the first article of the Philadelphia Inquirer series, comparing corporate welfare received to the number of people layed off in that time (1990-1994).
Welfare recieved Employment
GM $110,600,000 -104,000
IBM 58,000,000 -100,000
AT&T 35,000,000 -1,077 * #
GE 25,400,000 -80,000
Amoco 23,600,000 -8,300 *
DuPont 15,200,000 -29,961
Motorola 15,100,000 +9,600 *
Citicorp 9,600,000 -15,700
* exceptions to the trend
# AT&T layed off 40,000 people shortly after this accounting
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