Amazon Has Received $4.7 Billion in Subsidies Globally, Watchdog Says

February 9, 2022

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Amazon has received $4.7 billion in subsidies from governments around the world for warehouses, data centers, film production, fashion studies, grocery stores, call centers and more, a new report by Good Jobs First and UNI Global Union reveals.

But that figure is undoubtedly a vast under-count, due to the lack of transparency in so many countries, and Amazon’s increasingly secretive practices.

Read the full story at Vice.

Read the full report at Good Jobs First.