Illustrating the Income Gap of 1% to 99%

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America’s Growing Income Gap, by the Numbers by Braden Goyette The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office recently released a much-discussed study showing that over the past three decades the income of the highest-paid Americans has soared while the income of others has [...]

What is ALEC? How Model Legislation is Written by Corporations

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Founded in 1973 by Paul Weyrich and other conservative activists frustrated by recent electoral setbacks, ALEC is a critical arm of the right-wing network of policy shops that, with infusions of corporate cash, has evolved to shape American politics. Inspired by Milton Friedman’s call for conservatives to “develop alternatives to existing policies [and] keep them alive and available,” ALEC’s model legislation reflects long-term goals: downsizing government, removing regulations on corporations and making it harder to hold the economically and politically powerful to account.

Free Market Economy | Why Cheating & Fraud Call The Shots

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By Lagan Sebert and David Heath Huffington Post Investigative Fund 10:41 am | 21 Dec 2009 William K. Black is a former senior deputy chief counsel at the federal Office of Thrift Supervision. During the savings and loan [...]

Top Ten Worst Corporations of 08′

The System Implodes The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008 by Robert Weissman 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of Multinational Monitor’s annual list of the 10 Worst Corporations of the year. In the 20 years that we’ve published our [...]