Investigating Power
…stop the privatization of public schools, and help mitigate climate change. Opposition to these initiatives is fierce and growing and often nationally-driven and coordinated by the American Legislative Exchange Council…
…efforts through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to discourage states from pursuing fraud claims. The False Claims Act (FCA) allows the government to recover from businesses that defraud government…
…lieutenant in that same police department wants to be our sheriff.” The ads had a big impact in predominantly African-American wards in the city. But Clarke, who is African-American, is…
…ago for dumping the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) after Google dumped ALEC for its climate change denial and obstruction. Should Americans be concerned that a foreign multinational corporation is…
…groups including the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). CMD has documented Exxon’s grants to ALEC and that group’s work to promote climate change denial in a letter sent to the…
…public scrutiny. But it also exposes the bankruptcy of the promises of transparency and better governance that helped corporate interest groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) sell the…
…children are facing many budget challenges—due in part to continuing problems caused by the “TABOR” law, a controversial budget law peddled by the American Legislative Exchange Council. ALEC is a…
This week, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) unveiled new documents showing the role that lobbyists for state chambers of commerce play in thwarting measures that American workers and,…
When considering American CEOs as a category, “empathetic” is not the first word that comes to mind. Yet, the fact that these top executives have empathy for their workers is…
…frontlines of the local opposition, working with other local affiliates of the National Restaurant Association, the American Hotel & Lodging Association, and other corporate trade groups to slow or stop…
