Investigating Power
…ten” Americans do not have faith in our democratic institutions due to the influence of money-in-politics, Whitehouse said. He emphasized that Americans want to have a government that “works for…
…means of undermining unions who were organizing black and white workers together in the same shop. Predictably, Koch brothers groups–such as Americans for Prosperity, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC),…
…health threat. In a June 2017 article in the American Journal of Public Health, Jennifer Pomeranz of New York University’s College of Global Public Health and Mark Pertschuk of Grassroots…
…Congress last fall will result in higher wages for American workers. UPS is a member of the American Exchange Legislative Council (ALEC), the corporate-funded group where global corporations and state…
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) named Missouri Republican state Rep. Bruce DeGroot as a “Legislator of the Week” in June. Why is ALEC so fond of DeGroot? Because he…
…the 2011 Wisconsin Uprising, was the first of the 10 to speak. Roys, 38, made it clear that she thought it was time “for a new generation of leaders” in…
When Speaker Paul Ryan pushed the Jobs and Tax Cut Act of 2017, which lowered corporate tax rates from 35 to 21 percent, he promised American workers “more jobs, fairer…
…in the 2016 election cycle, but ended up spending less after Trump won the Republican nomination. “We will be spending more than any midterm in our network history,” Americans for…
…paychecks. Economists agree that a key variable in the wage stagnation is the inability of the vast majority of American workers to join together to demand higher wages. Unionized workers…
…top priority for their sprawling political network in 2017, as internal documents revealed. The Kochs’ Americans for Prosperity astroturf group lobbied hard for the bill and spent some $20 million…
