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Corporations
More Corporations Flee as ALEC Rolls Out Its Legislative Agenda
Nearly 100 private sector funders having left ALEC since 2011.
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Bigger Health Care Providers Mean Bigger Profits, but Not Always Better Care
Hospitals are buying private physician practices left and right, and state attorneys general should consider whether such mega-providers violate anti-trust laws.
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The Craving for Democracy
Many are unwilling to participate in an electoral game that does not provide genuine popular control.
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Chief Tax-Dodging Officers
Many corporations are paying their CEOs more than they pay the Treasury.
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Report: US Cities Increasingly Spurn Water Privatization
Industry countering with heightened PR, policy interference.
Public Citizen Calls on FEC to Close Absurd Corporate Loophole
Contractors now can both give contributions and receive contracts through separately incorporated divisions of same company.
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Students to Teach for America CEOs: You Are “Complicit” in Attacks on Public Education
The campaign against TFA is about something bigger than one organization.
If Shareholders Stopped Letting CEOs Rip Them Off It Would Reduce Inequality
Since CEOs are among the very top earners in the US economy, reductions in their pay will have a substantial impact on wage inequality.
FACT Urges Congress to End Offshore Corporate Tax Dodging Via Extenders and Inversions
The Treasury Department announced new rules designed to stem the tide of inversions, and have been somewhat successful.
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Minimum Wage Workers Just Got a Raise, but Will Bosses Steal It?
Regardless of what the minimum wage law says, many workers inevitably end up earning less.