TNReport.com investigates how a new state law will fail to protect taxpayers from a recently announced layoff of 500 workers by Volkswagen. The auto manufacturer has received hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money for its Chattanooga plant, and the state will likely be unable to recoup any...

WJHL in the Tri-Cities covers Beacon’s investigation into EBT card abuse and notes the changes in state law that spawned from it. “It’s really disheartening to see so much of this money going to things like liquor and to strip clubs when it’s designed to provide necessities to...

The Nashville Business Journal takes a look at the film incentives received by the TV show “Nashville,” and discusses whether those handouts should be renewed if a second season is cast. Beacon’s Director of Policy Trey Moore says no. “If it’s successful enough to be picked...

The Heartland Institute notes Gov. Bill Haslam’s decision to thus far reject a Medicaid expansion. The article quotes Beacon director of policy Trey Moore, who explains how this rejection does not mean Tennessee taxpayers will lose money to other states. “The notion that money will go to other...

TN Report offers an interesting analysis of the fallout from Hemlock Semiconducter, which was awarded nearly $300 million in taxpayer handouts before announcing massive layoffs at its Clarksville plant. TN Report gets Beacon Director of Policy Trey Moore’s take on the consequences of corporate...

The editorial board of the Murfreesboro Daily News Journal praises the effort by Sen. Jim Tracy and Rep. Terri Lynn Weaver to curb welfare abuse. As the editorial notes, the measure comes on the heels of an investigation by the Beacon Center that found welfare recipients using their EBT cards in strip...

TNReport.com takes a look at the bill to curb EBT/welfare abuse after it passed the Senate unanimously on Monday night. The article notes how the bill resulted from a Beacon investigation into the matter. Included in the article is a statement from Beacon CEO Justin Owen: “We applaud Sen. Jim Tracy...

Statement from the Beacon Center on Senate passage of SB244: The Tennessee State Senate on Monday evening passed legislation to curb welfare abuse after the Beacon Center uncovered questionable uses of Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards in places such as strip clubs and liquor stores in large...

TNReport.com has a very interesting story on how the state is forking over $22 million to the film industry in what Beacon’s Trey Moore says is bad for taxpayers. “This is one of the most insidious forms of corporate welfare out there,” Trey Moore, with the free-market think tank Beacon Center,...