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Search results for "subsidies" ...
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Economic Development Subsidies: $70 Billion Worth of Stories
LeRoy's Powerpoint is a great resource for all things related to economic development claims. He includes the harm that job subsidies can cause and lots of story ideas.
Tags: job subsidies; TIFs; tax loophole
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Reporting on economic development subsidies
Heaney's Powerpoint presentation provides you with great questions to ask and issues to consider when covering economic development claims.
Tags: subsidies; wealth; data; Political contributions; lobbying efforts
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Tipsheet for Reporting on Economic Development Subsidies & Recipient Companies
LeRoy offers lots of helpful tips and websites for reporting on subsidy programs in your state.
Tags: subsidies; TIFs; EMMA; tax-exempt
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Tipsheet for Reporting on Economic Development Subsidies & Recipient Companies
"States and cities spend about $70 billion a year in the name of economic development, using dozens of programs and tax breaks." Do some muckraking with help from these tips, and you'll be finding out if your tax dollars are being spent accordingly.
Tags: subsidies; economic development; job creation; taxes
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Reporting on economic development subsidies
Heaney takes a look at the "big picture" of reporting on economic development subsidies. He provides an outline of important issues to consider, as well as questions to ask.
Tags: data; wealth creation;
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Watchdog Investigations in Tough Times
Collister offers suggestions for watchdog stories to do during these tough times. Included: following stimulus funds; Congressional spending; discretionary spending of governments; farm subsidies; and many others. He also gives brief accounts of good investigative work being done across the country using these as suggestions for similar watchdog reporting in your own newsroom.
Tags: investigative reporting; broadcast; government spending; watchdog reporting;
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International data
Mulvad explores a myriad of available international data sets, including information on the quality of the data sets. Included are: farm subsidy data, fish subsidy data, lobby register; business data; and the status of other data sets in the European Union.
Tags: international; international data; farm subsidy data; European Union; EU; wobbing
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Fueling a Good Story: Using data to investigate Big Oil and renewable fuels
The author lists and describes a variety of online sources that will help reporters to understand all angles of a fuel-driven investigation. The sources included fall into these categories: renewable energy basics; subsidies, incentives, more taxpayer $$; environment; politics; international trade; and automotive.
Tags: oil; petroleum; fuel; energy; environmental reporting; gasoline; online sources; data acquisition
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Fueling a Good Story: Using data to investigate Big Oil and renewable fuels
The author lists resources for covering the energy beat. She breaks the resources into sections: Renewable energy basics, Subsidies, Environment, Politics, International Trade, Automotive and other. Each resource listed is accompanied by a short description.
Tags: oil; energy; resources; biodiesel; ethanol; gas prices
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www.farmsubsidy.org tipsheet
Alfter and Mulvad detail how they built farmsubsidy.org using data from EU countries. They suggest you find partners to do stories on AMerican investors, farm-bill consequences, WTO negotiations or how farm subsidies in devloped world impact developing countries like the Dominican Republic.
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