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April 20, 2022 — Rethink Trade Director Lori Wallach spoke with The American Prospect about the major differences between the House’s COMPETES bill and the Senate’s USICA legislation.

April 19, 2022 — Over the past two weeks, the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division concluded three trials alleging illegal market allocation, wage fixing, and price fixing agreements, albeit with a mixed record. Today, the American Economic Liberties Project is applauding the Division for indicting corporations and their executives for non-poaching agreements and wage-fixing, which are novel but proper interpretations of the Sherman Act.

April 19, 2022 — The Oklahoma state legislature is advancing a massive incentive package at the request of Gov. Kevin Stitt, which would provide tax breaks to an as-of-yet unnamed corporation. Stitt admitted publicly to signing a non-disclosure agreement which prevents him from divulging the corporation’s identity or how many jobs it has said it will create for Oklahoma workers.

April 19, 2022 — Following Instacart’s decision to abandon a play for tax credits from California, Economic Liberties’ Director of State & Local Policy Pat Garofalo talked with Bloomberg Tax about why this was a big win for transparency.

April 18, 2022 — Rethink Trade Research Director Daniel Rangel spoke to Inside U.S. Trade about why U.S. labor officials must look into labor abuses at Panasonic’s auto parts factory in Reynosa, Mexico ahead of their union vote.