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Students are losing out as cities give billions in property tax breaks to businesses. Our team worked with 3 academic experts on an in-depth investigation into how ineffective tax breaks are taking much-needed cash from classrooms.

As one seventh grader put it: “If it wasn’t in the budget to fund playground equipment, how can it also be in the budget to give one of the most powerful corporations in the world a tax break?"

More: https://theconversation.com/students-lose-out-as-cities-and-states-give-billions-in-property-tax-breaks-to-businesses-draining-school-budgets-and-especially-hurting-the-poorest-students-222940

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