Investigating Power
Chamber of Commerce lobbyists were instructed on how to thwart local business leaders’ “empathy” for workers and support for popular policies in order to advance national anti-worker agenda.
New Report by the Center for Media and Democracy and the Sierra Club Virginia Chapter.
In the spirit of national Sunshine Week, CMD has written a letter to ALEC and its state chairs calling on them to release basic information about their operations.
Part of an emerging national trend, the Wisconsin Senate voted along party lines to approve a bill that would prohibit local communities from issuing their own rules on plastic bags and other containers.
The Koch brothers’ group targeting veterans gave a secret briefing to U.S. House Republicans on “Reforming Veterans Health Care” last week, according to an invitation to the meeting provided to CMD.
ALEC continues to push a corporate-driven school privatization agenda through legislatures across the country.
How did an ALEC anti-union “model bill” end up in a small town in Illinois?
Ford responded to consumer concern over its membership in ALEC.
Corporate interests are taking aim at local government.
“Wages in RTW states are 3.1 percent lower than those in non-RTW states. . . This translates into RTW being associated with $1,558 lower annual wages for a typical full-time, full-year worker.”