By Remington Gregg, Public Citizen Gift cards are incredibly popular. They are also easy to buy and make great stocking stuffers and last minute presents. According to a 2017 National Retail Federation poll, “For the eleventh year in a row, gift cards remain the most popular items on wish lists, requested by 61 percent of […]
By Collette Watson, Free Press 1. FCC Chairman Pai will not have the last word. The Dec. 14 vote was disappointing but is absolutely not the end of this fight. Free Press and our allies — plus attorneys general across the country — will have plenty to say in court about the legal mistakes littered […]
By Marni von Wilpert, Economic Policy Institute On Friday, the Trump administration’s appointees to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) once again made it more difficult for workers to join together and form a union, by overturning the Board’s standard for determining an appropriate bargaining unit, as established in 2011’s Specialty Healthcare case. Under the National Labor Relations […]
By Lauren Urbanek, Natural Resources Defense Council America’s energy efficiency standards program has quietly been saving U.S. consumers trillions of dollars off their utility bills over the last 30 years, and there are plenty more savings to still to be achieved. While 2016 ended on a high note with the Obama administration developing and finalizing […]