{"id":121170,"date":"2021-04-02T09:22:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T16:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/us-fossil-fuel-companies-took-billions-in-tax-breaks-and-then-laid-off-thousands"},"modified":"2021-04-02T09:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T16:22:40","slug":"us-fossil-fuel-companies-took-billions-in-tax-breaks-and-then-laid-off-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/us-fossil-fuel-companies-took-billions-in-tax-breaks-and-then-laid-off-thousands","title":{"rendered":"US fossil-fuel companies took billions in tax breaks \u2013 and then laid off thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-fossil-fuel-companies-took-billions-in-tax-breaks-and-then-laid-off-thousands2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year\u2019s stimulus was about keeping the economy going, but these companies didn\u2019t use these resources to retain their workers. These are companies that are polluting the environment, increasing the deadliness of the pandemic and letting go of their workers.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Figures show 77 companies received $8.2bn under tax changes related to Covid relief and yet almost every one let workers go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLast year\u2019s stimulus was about keeping the economy going, but these companies didn\u2019t use these resources to retain their workers. These are companies that are polluting the environment, increasing the deadliness of the pandemic and letting go of their workers.\u201d Figures show 77 companies received $8.2bn under tax changes related to Covid relief and yet [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}