All 18 Uses of
subsidy
in
Fast Food Nation
- No other region of the United States has been so dependent on government subsidies for so long, from the nineteenth-century construction of its railroads to the twentieth-century financing of its military bases and dams.†
p. 7.9subsidies = economic aid
- While publicly espousing support for the free market, the fast food chains have quietly pursued and greatly benefited from a wide variety of government subsidies.†
p. 8.4
- The automobile industry, however, was not content simply to reap the benefits of government-subsidized road construction.†
p. 16.5 *subsidized = supported by providing money or other economic aidstandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- While quietly spending enormous sums on research and technology to eliminate employee training, the fast food chains have accepted hundreds of millions of dollars in government subsidies for "training" their workers.†
p. 72.2subsidies = economic aid
- These federal subsidy programs were created to reward American companies that gave job training to the poor.†
p. 72.4
- Attempts to end these federal subsidies have been strenuously opposed by the National Council of Chain Restaurants and its allies in Congress.†
p. 72.5subsidies = economic aid
- It offered as much as $385 million in subsidies the following year.†
p. 72.6
- American taxpayers have in effect subsidized the industry's high turnover rate, providing company tax breaks for workers who are employed for just a few months and receive no training.†
p. 72.6subsidized = supported by providing money or other economic aidstandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- The industry front group formed to defend these government subsidies is called the "Committee for Employment Opportunities?'†
p. 72.7subsidies = economic aid
- Its chief lobbyist, Bill Signer, told the Houston Chronicle there was nothing wrong with the use of federal subsidies to create low-paying, low-skilled, short-term jobs for the poor.†
p. 72.8
- A 1981 study by the General Accounting Office found that the SBA had guaranteed 18,000 franchise loans between 1967 and 1979, subsidizing the launch of new Burger Kings and McDonald's, among others.†
p. 102.1subsidizing = supporting by providing money or other economic aidstandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- "Our job is not to provide subsidies to corporations that are importing low-cost labor," said a county official.†
p. 163.4subsidies = economic aid
- They have successfully pitted one economically depressed region against another, using the threat of plant closures and the promise of future investment to obtain lucrative government subsidies.†
p. 163.7
- One study has suggested that after the revision of the state's tax code every new job that ConAgra and IBP created there was backed by a taxpayer subsidy of between $13,000 and $23,000.†
p. 164.3
- From its inception, the company that started the revolution in meatpacking — by crushing labor unions and championing the ruthless efficiency of the market — has made ample use of government subsidies.†
p. 164.8subsidies = economic aid
- The strongest engines of American economic growth in the 1990s — the computer, software, aerospace, and satellite industries — have been heavily subsidized by the Pentagon for decades.†
p. 260.8subsidized = supported by providing money or other economic aidstandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- Job training schemes subsidized by the federal government should insist that companies employ workers for at least a year — and actually provide some training.†
p. 262.7
- CONGRESS SHOULD BAN ADVERTISING that preys upon children, it should stop subsidizing dead-end jobs, it should pass tougher food safety laws, it should protect American workers from serious harm, it should fight against dangerous concentrations of economic power.†
p. 267.2subsidizing = supporting by providing money or other economic aidstandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
Definition:
support in the form of money or other economic aid