Today on TAP: Can the president be even more effective in countering the Republicans’ false narrative?
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Posted inEconomic Policy
New York Begins Rulemaking to Stop Corporate Profiteering
The attorney general’s office will seek to apply the state’s price-gouging law to opportunistic price increases that use high inflation as an excuse.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Meat Industry’s Middlemen Are Starving Families and Farmers
How monopolization in the meatpacking and processing industry affects us all
Posted inEconomic Policy
Antitrust Should Be Used to Fight Inflation
Controlling market power is an integral tool to deal with rising costs.
Posted inPolitics
There Is a Bully Pulpit
And thanks to the Supreme Court, Biden will need to use it.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Congressmembers Roll Out an Anti–Big Tech Agenda
But its path to passage is muddled; states and the courts could lead the way.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
‘Big Four’ Meatpackers Are Crushing Small Ranchers
The JBS cyber attack caused only a hiccup in meatpacking operations. But for legislators, the security scare was a sign that it might be time to break up the industry.
Posted inPolitics
Nebraska’s Rural Rebellion
A native Nebraskan deconstructs the Cornhusker State’s conservative politics and culture and how Democrats fell so far so fast.
Posted inWorking in America
How OSHA Fails to Protect Migrant Food Processing Workers
North Carolina is an extreme case—but far from the only one.
Posted inTAP
Biden and Workers: A Good Start
Today on TAP: The new president takes action at OSHA and the NLRB