{"id":80943,"date":"2018-07-26T02:22:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T09:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/cities-need-to-stop-selling-out-to-big-tech-companies-theres-a-better-way"},"modified":"2018-07-26T02:22:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T09:22:22","slug":"cities-need-to-stop-selling-out-to-big-tech-companies-theres-a-better-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/cities-need-to-stop-selling-out-to-big-tech-companies-theres-a-better-way","title":{"rendered":"Cities need to stop selling out to big tech companies. There\u2019s a better way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cities-need-to-stop-selling-out-to-big-tech-companies-theres-a-better-way.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Giant technology companies in the US, which include some of the world\u2019s most profitable firms, have been pledged at least $9.3bn in state and local subsidies over the last five years \u2013 much of it coming from the coffers of cities and states with failing infrastructure, struggling schools and broken budgets.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Fostering local hi-tech success doesn\u2019t have to mean offering huge tax breaks to companies like Apple and Amazon. Here are some alternative strategies.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2018\/jul\/03\/cities-need-to-stop-selling-out-to-big-tech-companies-theres-a-better-way\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2018\/jul\/03\/cities-need-t...better-way<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giant technology companies in the US, which include some of the world\u2019s most profitable firms, have been pledged at least $9.3bn in state and local subsidies over the last five years \u2013 much of it coming from the coffers of cities and states with failing infrastructure, struggling schools and broken budgets. Fostering local hi-tech success [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80943","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}