Prohibiting Surveillance Prices and Wages
February 20, 2025 — This report, from Economic Liberties and partners, reveals how corporations are using mass surveillance and hidden algorithms to illegally inflate prices for consumers and suppress wages for workers -- and pushes state policymakers to take action.
Fact Sheet: Why Big Tech Has an Interest in Shuttering the CFPB
February18, 2025 — Following the Trump Administration's de-facto shut down of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, this Economic Liberties fact sheet explains how Big Tech firms stand to benefit from the lack of an effective consumer watchdog.
Transforming Antitrust Enforcement: How AAG Kanter and Acting AAG Mekki Protected Competition Across the Economy
January 28, 2025 — AAG Kanter and Acting AAG Mekki have worked to transform antitrust enforcement across the federal government to promote competition and meet the new economic challenges America now confronts. Under their leadership, the DOJ Antitrust Division took aggressive action to protect American businesses, workers, and consumers from powerful corporate monopolies. In AAG Kanter’s words: “Antitrust is for the people.” And the people are winning.
Factsheet: The FTC–For the First Time in Decades–Held Corporate America Accountable to Protect Small Businesses, Workers, and Consumers
July 13, 2022 (Updated January 2025) — The Federal Trade Commission, led by Chair Lina Khan, entered a new era of more effective, modern, and democratic enforcement to better protect consumers, workers, and independent businesses. Chair Khan revitalized the FTC’s critical enforcement role, promoting free and competitive markets where new entrants and small businesses can thrive by combatting unprecedented levels of economic concentration and fostering competition in pursuit of prosperity.
Laws Are Not Suggestions: How the CFPB Is Delivering for the American People
January 28 2025 — Under Director Rohit Chopra, the CFPB has held scammers like Wells Fargo accountable, returning billions of dollars of Americans’ hard-earned money to their bank accounts; fought back against Wall Street and Big Tech’s discriminatory and anti-competitive behavior; ensured violating the law can no longer be written off as just a “cost of doing business;” and restored financial freedom to millions of Americans held hostage by the credit reporting cartel.
Tools For Reining in Monopoly Utilities: A Guide for State Lawmakers
January 24, 2025 — "Tools For Reining in Monopoly Utilities: A Guide for State Lawmakers" serves as a how-to-guide for state and local lawmakers to fight back against corporate consolidation in the utilities industry.