corporate welfare

noun

chiefly US
: money or aid given by the government to help a large company

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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 In my case, that means taking on corporate welfare—most recently defeating a massive tax break for an Amazon warehouse. James Skoufis, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 July 2025 However, the plan also ran into sharp criticism from opponents who framed stadium subsidies as corporate welfare for rich team owners. Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 11 June 2025 Federal dollars for state-level corporate welfare is textbook government waste. John C. Mozena, National Review, 4 Feb. 2025

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