and philip mattera, on which organizations benefit -- which nations benefit the most from has credits. "washington journal" is next. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] host: good morning and welcome to "washington journal." in a couple of hours, thousands of kids, families will dissent on the white house lawn for the annual 137th white house easter egg roll. the president and first lady will be there, and we will get an update on that and the resident's troubles this week to the pan-american conference what is ahead for the iranian nuclear deal. we will start our program with some of the news that developed

joining us for the last 45 minutes on washington journal is philip mattera. s the research director for a group called good jobs first with a new report tracking corporations, how corporations get taxpayer subsidies and tax breaks across the country. mr. mattera, tell us about your organization. what is behind is? guest: we are a non-profit nonpartisan research center that traditionally works on state and local economic development policy. and we created a database called subsidy tracker to compile the available information on those subsidies. recently, we extended subsidy tracker to the federal level and now include data on more than 130 federal programs that provide grants allocated tax credit, loans, loan guarantees and bailout assistance corporations. host: what is the dollar figure in how much annually u.s. provides grants, subsidies etc.? guest: i should say our information is only the amount that can be treated to specific -- attributed to specific companies. there are a lot of things in the tax breaks -- there's a lot of the tax goods and the tax break

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