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Field of Welfare: How COVID Funds Might Build a Money-Losing Ballpark in a Cornfield (Audio)
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Field of Welfare: How COVID Funds Might Build a Money-Losing Ballpark in a Cornfield (Audio)

Is there a single movie more tied up with lousy government policy than Field of Dreams?
Matt Welch
Aug 11, 2022
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Field of Welfare: How COVID Funds Might Build a Money-Losing Ballpark in a Cornfield
As Major League Baseball on Thursday takes to a remote Iowa cornfield for its second annual Field of Dreams game in commemoration of the nostalgic 1989 Kevin Costner film, it's worth reflecting that at least five different governments are cobbling together a deal to spend a combined $45 million in taxpayer money on a proposed 3,000-capacity stadium to b…
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