Right To Repair, Rising
The movement to let you fix your own stuff is winning
At the end of the day, people just want to be able to fix their stuff....
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How Minnesota Took on Hospital Monopolies and Won
HF 402 creates a “public interest standard” for mergers
Across the country, health care workers have seen both their pay and their working conditions head down a slope thanks to the increasing power of the large health systems that employ them....
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Health Care Monopolies Strike Back
Three ways big health care systems are fighting new rules and antitrust scrutiny
It looks to me like a case of UNC Health is reading the writing on the wall and trying to get ahead of either court cases that could harm its future power....
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Taking on Ticketmaster
A California bill would eliminate a key tactic Ticketmaster uses to rip you off
Pat Garofalo writes about a California bill that would eliminate a key tactic Ticketmaster uses to rip you off....
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Inside the Sports Subsidy Industrial Complex
Phony numbers, huge conflicts of interest, and bad journalism
And that’s the crux of it: stadium boosters always trot out these outlandish economic impact studies to justify taxpayer investments that never pay off....
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The Public Wants to Ban Secret Deals
New polling shows voters think secret corporate subsidy deals are shady and corrupt
NDAs were a key part of Amazon’s push for its subsidized HQ2, and have popped up in states all across the country....
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Throw Junk Fees in the Trash
States are following the Biden administration’s lead in going after unfair and deceptive fees
If corporations have power, it’s a safe bet they’re using it to extract junk fees. ...
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Inside the Fight to Save Local Journalism
State and federal lawmakers are aiming at Big Tech’s ability to destroy local news
The decline in local news coverage is bad for communities for a whole host of reasons. ...
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The High Cost of Cheap Corporate Utilities
Discounted energy is a backdoor subsidy
Make any utility discounts for “economic development” transparent and debatable before public bodies, if they have to be allowed at all...
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Job Creation by Merger Is for Suckers
JetBlue’s possible acquisition of Spirit may lead to job losses
The history here...is clear: mergers kill jobs....
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Non-compete Agreements and Corporate Subsidies, with Pat Garofalo
Unproductive Labor Podcast, Episode 22
I’m pleased to be speaking with Pat Garofalo about NCAs and corporate subsidies...
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Camden Got Answers—And They Revealed A Lot
So much money for big corporations, not many jobs for local residents
disclosure can be a powerful tool for uncovering exactly how flawed particular subsidy deals really are. We never would have known how few local residents these heavily subsidized corporations were hiring without a committed group of activists using the available legal tools to implement a new disclosure regime....
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