Right To Repair, Rising

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

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

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

Pat Garofalo writes about a California bill that would eliminate a key tactic Ticketmaster uses to rip you off....

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The High Cost of Cheap Corporate Utilities

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

The history here...is clear: mergers kill jobs....

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Camden Got Answers—And They Revealed A Lot

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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The Car Rental Sales Tax Swap Scam

Big car rental corporations did a very good job sweeping across the country collecting what is a massive backdoor tax subsidy on the purchase of their main business asset....

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The National, Bipartisan Loathing of Hospital Monopolies

The United States, rather famously, has the highest health care prices in the developed world. And one of the chief drivers behind that is high hospital prices: hospitals receive $1 in $3 spent in the United States on health care, and they're more profitable than other notorious health care sectors such as insurers or pharmacy benefit managers....

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“The Commonwealth of Amazon”

As one Virginia resident put it, “Northern Virginia is being overwhelmed by these things. … We may as well start calling ourselves the Commonwealth of Amazon.”...

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Non-Competes, Banned

Getting rid of non-competes is a big deal and is a big win for economic freedom for all workers...

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