Pennsylvania awards $200M to expand high-speed internet access, and a lot more is on the way. But the looming end of a federal program that helps low-income families afford broadband underscores the challenge of ensuring universal access.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Canadian governments spent $52 billion in 2022 subsidizing businesses across all provinces—including federal, provincial, and local spending—finds a new report published today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank. “These subsidies for businesses—also known as corporate welfare—come with huge costs to government budgets and taxpayers while doing little if anything to stimulate econom
Russia allocated a total of RUB 675 billion (about US$7.6 billion) in support for the occupied "administrations" in seized territories of Ukraine in 2023. Source: estimates by Forbes Russia Details: The Russian occupying administrations in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts of Ukraine received RUB 513 billion (about US$5.