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E197 - Arizona Has 5 Toss-Up Races That Could Decide House Control — Here's Where the Money Is | The States

Published: July 17, 2026

Duration: 27:56

Tennessee corporate incentives, Arizona primaries next week, and wildfires across Canada send smoke through several states.

Tennessee has awarded more than $760 million in grants to about 585 companies over eight years to attract jobs, including a $30 million grant to Starbucks for a new Nashville headquarters, drawing criticism from groups calling the program "corporate welfare." The state has clawed back $92.4 million from 55 companies since 2016 across 71 enforcement actions, but is still owed $20.1 million from 18 companies, including a case where a company that got $3 million and created zero jobs saw its owners imprisoned on wire fraud charges.

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