Subsidy Tracker new data released

One of the projects that I work on for the nonprofit group Good Jobs First is their Subsidy Tracker site, "the only national [U.S.] search engine capturing company-specific economic development incentive awards from the federal government, all 50 states and many localities." Here's the press release and the site itself.

You can search this site in all sorts of ways -- including finding all of the subsidies given to major parent companies -- but one of the basic kinds of searches is finding the subsidies to businesses in your home town. You can do this by going to the bottom of the search form, filling in a state, and then choosing a city from a list of cities that will be populated. Here's a search for Northampton, MA. You can see a subsidy for the Coca-Cola plant, a major industrial water user, and one to Kollmorgen (now L-3 KEO), a defense contractor, as well as some subsidies to development firms -- probably the three most controversial businesses where I live.