New research finds that a wide range of big corporations have been shortchanging the people who work for them.
Report: Wage Theft is Pervasive in Corporate America; Big Banks, Insurers are Among Most-Penalized Firms
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Christian Right Groups Wage Crusade to Capture Courts
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New Center for Media and Democracy report details sustained campaign to tear down the walls separating church and state.
Campaign Finance Expert, Arn Pearson, Becomes CMD’s New Executive Director
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The Center for Media and Democracy is pleased to announce that its General Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor, Arn Pearson, has been selected to be CMD’s new Executive Director.
CMD’s Mary Bottari Wins Sidney Award for Tracing Billionaires’ Plot to Kill Unions
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Mary Bottari wins March Sidney for “Behind Janus: Documents Reveal Decade-Long Plot to Kill Public Sector Unions,” published by In These Times.
SPIKE IN PRIVATE EQUITY POLITICAL SPENDING SPARES LOOPHOLE IN GOP TAX PLAN
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New research by CMD shows private equity political spending soared to almost $100 million in 2016 election cycle.
The Poison Papers Expose Decades of Collusion between Industry and Regulators over Hazardous Pesticides and Other Chemicals
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The Bioscience Resource Project and the Center for Media and Democracy today are releasing a trove of rediscovered and newly digitized chemical industry and regulatory agency documents stretching back to the 1920s. The documents are available at PoisonPapers.org.
Watchdog Group Sues Utah AG for Withholding RAGA Documents
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AG Reyes refuses to release records relating to his dealings with the Republican Attorneys General Association’s corporate cash-for-influence operation.
More Than 100 Groups Call on Secretaries of State to Protect Voter Rights by Rejecting Pence-Kobach Request for Sensitive Voter Data
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CMD signed on to a letter along with 100 groups including The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights condemning Pence and Kobach’s request for American citizens’ personal information.
OKLAHOMA AG RELEASES 7,564 PAGES IN RESPONSE TO CMD REQUEST
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Under court order, Oklahoma Attorney General’s office releases previously withheld emails and holds back others; more emails expected on February 27.
COURT ORDERS SCOTT PRUITT TO RELEASE EMAILS
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Today, the Oklahoma County Court found Scott Pruitt in violation of the state’s Open Records Act lawsuit against Scott Pruitt for improperly withholding responsive public records and ordered his office to release thousands of emails in a matter of days.