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Good Jobs First is a national policy resource center for grassroots groups and public officials that promotes corporate and government accountability in economic development. We produce Subsidy Tracker, which displays more than 731,000 financial assistance awards from more than 1,063 federal, state and local government programs

Our Corporate Research Project provides tools to help community, environmental and labor organizations research companies and industries. Our Violation Tracker contains company-specific data on more than 512,000 regulatory violations and other forms of corporate misconduct.

Covid Stimulus Watch assembles available Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) and American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) recipient data and combines it with accountability data from Violation Tracker, Subsidy Tracker and other sources.

Publications:

• Lessons Learned from the Paycheck Protection Program: A Way Forward for an Equitable COVID Recovery — The COVID Oversight Coalition, comprised of Good Jobs First and six other organizations, assessed the Paycheck Protection Program and found a number of deficiencies, including how it was exploited by major corporations like McDonalds and luxury hotels like the Chateau Marmont.
   
• Federal Dollars, States’ Recoveries: How Poorly Most States are Disclosing CARES ACT Spending —Good Jobs First reviewed the online disclosure practices of the 50 states and the District of Columbia spent a combined $111.8 billion from the Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF). Just six states do it well, the analysis found.
   
• WORKPLACE WARNINGS: The Need for a New and Improved Paycheck Protection Program — More than 190,000 American workers were laid off between March 2020 and October 2020 across 1,900 companies that received loans through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The companies intended to support 251,000 workers – instead, they laid off 76% of them, a Good Jobs First analysis of Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act notices revealed.
   
• The Corporate Culprits Receiving COVID Bailouts — More than 43,000 businesses and non-profit organizations that received CARES Act funds have a history of misconduct, collectively paying $13 billion to settle civil and criminal penalties over the last decade, a Good Jobs First analysis found.
   

For questions or comments about the site, contact:

Philip Mattera
Research Director
Good Jobs First
pmattera@goodjobsfirst.org