ALEC has decided to drop the pretense: school vouchers are not about helping poor, at-risk or minority kids.
ALEC Admits School Vouchers Are for Kids in Suburbia
By Jonas Persson | at
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Four Ways ALEC Tried to Ruin Your State This Year
By Jessica Mason | at
This year, ALEC has continued to wreak havoc in states across the country despite an exodus of high-profile corporate members, including BP, Google, and several high-tech firms.
“Death by a Thousand Cuts” and ALEC’s Local Strategy for Attacking Unions
By Brendan Fischer | at
ALEC made headlines, following Wisconsin Republicans’ introduction of a nearly verbatim copy of ALEC’s model Right to Work Act.
More Corporations Flee as ALEC Rolls Out Its Legislative Agenda
By Lisa Graves | at
“What can Brown do for you?” UPS is one of only nine funders of the American Legislative Exchange Council’s annual winter meeting listed on its brochure this year.
Facebook Plans to Cut Ties With ALEC
By Brendan Fischer | at
Just one day after Google announced it was cutting ties with the ALEC, Facebook announced that they are “not likely” to renew their ALEC membership next year.
Edelman Makes a Climate Change Pledge, But Forgets About ALEC
By Nick Surgey | at
Edelman, the worlds largest PR company, synonymous with astroturf-style front groups, has announced that it will no longer work for groups that deny climate change.
How ALEC Fronts for Fossil Fuels
By Nick Surgey | at
Even as the Environmental Protection Agency finally attempts to limit carbon dioxide pollution from coal plants, it is meeting resistance at the state level, thanks to a secretive campaign by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
Who Is Behind the National Right to Work Committee and its Anti-Union Crusade?
By Jay Riestenberg and Mary Bottari | at
The Supreme Court is poised to decide is Harris v. Quinn, “the most important labor law case the court has considered in decades.”
Revealed: ALEC’s 2014 Attacks on the Environment
By Nick Surgey | at
An internal tracking document — obtained from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) by the Center for Media and Democracy under Texas public records law — reveals the scope of ALEC’s anti-environmental efforts in 2014.
Documents from Open Records Lawsuit Further Undermine Claims that ALEC Is Legislator-Driven
By Brendan Fischer | at
Newly-released ALEC documents obtained as part of CMD”s open records litigation provide more evidence that lobbyists and special interests are calling the shots within ALEC, undermining that group’s latest PR spin that it is a “legislator-driven” organization.