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Back to EpisodesTaxpayer Philanthropy: Tax cash to nonprofits more than doubled since 2016 | Weekend Edition
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On this edition of the Center Square Radio Hour, In the past decade, government grants to nonprofits and the number that receive tax money has doubled, raising questions about whether public money is being wasted. Illinois state officials awarded more than $170,000 in taxpayer money to a nonprofit that paid for PTSD injections that don't have strong evidence backing them up. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that could determine the future of legal actions over energy companies' contributions to climate change. And a look at the cost of government borrowing and how it reaches taxpayers as higher taxes, higher interest rates, or higher inflation.
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