June 12, 2024 — In response to news that the US House has passed Rep. Young Kim and Rep. Kathy Castor’s No Hidden FEES Act, a bill to ban deceptive junk fees in hotels and other forms of short-term lodging, in a landslide bipartisan vote of 384-25, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.

June 11, 2024 — In response to news that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has proposed a rule that would eliminate nearly $49 billion of medical debt that unfairly and inaccurately lowers credit scores for 15 million Americans—preventing them from accessing loans and other financial products—the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.  

June 11, 2024 — Following the Federal Trade Commission’s final rule to ban noncompete agreements, the American Economic Liberties Project today released a policy brief with model legislation, “Better Wages and Working Conditions: How States Should Tackle Noncompete Agreements, ‘TRAPs,’ and Other Restraints On Worker Mobility,” which provides a roadmap for state lawmakers to compliment federal regulation to end these exploitative practices.

June 7, 2024 — In response to news that the New York State legislature has passed — and Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to sign into law — a pair of bills prohibiting social media companies from, among other provisions, using algorithms to provide content to minors without parental consent and targeting advertising to children without parental consent, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.

June 6, 2024 — Yesterday, Rethink Trade’s Lori Wallach participated in a U.S. House AI Taskforce panel with other policy experts to discuss international and state preemption issues related to AI regulation. In response, Rethink Trade released the following statement.