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Students lose out as cities and states give billions in property tax breaks to businesses − draining school budgets and especially hurting the poorest students

Written by Christine Wen, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, Texas A&M University

Exxon Mobil Corp.'s campus in East Baton Rouge Parish, left, received millions in tax abatements to the detriment of local schools, right.Barry Lewis/Getty Images, Tjean314/Wikimedia

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