New York Daily News, By Daniel Beekman, August 16, 2012. A watchdog group is rolling out a new public awareness campaign to highlight corporate welfare gone wrong — starting with tax breaks for Merrill Lynch that failed to create jobs. The labor-backed Getting Our Money’s Worth Coalition launched the Corporate Tax Dodgers Hall of Shame campaign with a website this week and will “induct” Merrill Lynch during a protest Friday in midtown Manhattan.
Mid Hudson News,August 16, 2012. workers held a rally outside the Dutchess County Office Building Wednesday afternoon, criticizing IBM for taking public tax incentives while they say Big Blue created no new jobs.
WBAI Radio,by Andrea Sears, August 15, 2012. For years corporations in New York State have gotten huge tax breaks for promising to create new jobs. But a new website, GettingOurMoney'sWorth.org, shows that these same corporations hardly ever create the promised jobs.
The Getting Our Money’s Worth coalition announced the launch of a new website today that highlights the corporations that receive tax breaks but fail to create jobs, or create only poverty-wage jobs in return. The website launch featured a handful of corporations—from big banks like Bank of America Merrill Lynch to luxury apartment developers like Carl Paladino and A.G. Spanos—who have gamed New York’s economic development system.
Huffington Post, By Camille Rivera, June 27, 2012. In my years fighting for working people, I witnessed something on July 24 I never thought I would see: low-wage workers from as many as 10 different campaigns coming together as one for better wages, meaningful benefits and -- most of all -- respect
