American Economic Liberties Project

The American Economic Liberties Project is fighting to realize economic liberty for all, in support of a secure, inclusive democratic society.

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TODAY: Alongside @TCFdotorg, we're bringing together healthcare practitioners, workers, organizers, elected officials, such as @RonWyden and @RepMGS, to discuss how to Break Up Big Medicine and build a more effective healthcare system!

Tune in at 9AM ET: https://t.co/Lcsvr740Ki

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For the Economic Populist, @sarahmeyerhoff lays out how the NextEra-Dominion merger could jack up utility bills for customers.

Read it here: https://t.co/YgJIxFj0DD

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Video from @CBS6: https://t.co/9id8NPMwxl

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The NextEra-Dominion merger would create what the companies themselves describe as the largest utility in America, thus, handing the monopoly more leverage to hike rates.

When asked about Virginians concerns over utility costs rising, NextEra's Vice Chair walked away ⬇️

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Today in DealBook, a devastating sentence about the political impact of the Trump administration's decision to take benefits children get today and convert them into stock they get later.

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Full article: https://t.co/jKZWG0ZFgN

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Under Sec. Duffy, the DOT has leaned away from enforcement against big airlines and eroded a number of passengers' rights.

@WilliamJMcGee spoke to @nytimes about this: "It’s a really dark period for airline passengers right now as far as consumer rights. Clearly, the big airlines have access. They have the ear of the department, and the interests of consumers are not being heard."

[Zephyr Teachout @ZephyrTeachout]

You have no idea how big a deal this is.

It gets out of the bottleneck of AG enforces or nobody does. It gets around arbitration!!

Congrats to Sam, @HarveyforNY, Mamdani, this is a major moment for actually enforcing all those EXISTING laws that get shoved into quiet corners.

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There's a bad initiative on the ballot in Arkansas, which shows how corporate interests and pliant pols and press extract money from the public

https://t.co/Ofnk2fk0as

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Learn more here: https://t.co/XlhBKsGzkl

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ICYMI: @ChopraUSA is investigating the private equity takeover of youth sports!

Youth sports is now a $40 billion industry, nearly two times the revenue of the NFL. Now, with low-income families being priced out and the average annual cost reaching $5k per child, it's more important than ever to investigate this.

[Rohit Chopra @ChopraUSA]

60% of parents face severe financial burdens when it comes to the cost of sports.

Kids should not be shut out of sports because of corporate greed. California is investigating these youth sports takeovers. https://t.co/3pcf8OjAxT

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Read the remarks here: https://t.co/Ka4t6KCm42

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Over the weekend, the Association for Independent Medicine, one of the key organizations that helped us build the Break Up Big Medicine coalition, hosted their annual conference in Chicago.

In his opening remarks, AIM President and Co-Founder Dr. Marco Fernandez spoke about the driving forces hurting independent medicine:

"The forces reshaping your practice aren’t random. They come from an idea. That healthcare is a commodity. That consolidation equals efficiency. That a spreadsheet in a private equity office two states away can make better decisions about your patient than you can. That idea has a name: neoliberalism, applied to medicine."

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60% of parents face severe financial burdens when it comes to the cost of sports.

Kids should not be shut out of sports because of corporate greed. California is investigating these youth sports takeovers. https://t.co/3pcf8OjAxT

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Read the full piece here: https://t.co/CZcuSvC7jv

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The latest updates to the Trump Accounts confirm what we already knew: These were never really about leveling the playing field. It's always been about enriching Wall Street and ensuring the next generation has no choice but to be apart of it.

@DouglasLFarrar in the Economic Populist on this: "When today’s newborns reach voting age, a huge share of their savings could rise and fall with a handful of companies, several of which are in antitrust litigation right now. Every effort to regulate or break them up will be attacked as a raid on your child’s college fund. Company lobbyists will make that argument with millions of account statements to point at."

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New from us:

Last week's Trump Accounts changes mean that millions of kids will get individual stocks that they can't reject and can't sell for five years.

https://t.co/7GWMvW4WJX

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Full story in WSJ: https://t.co/axorXp8USd

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David Ellison hired lobbyists and political operatives to help him kill the challenge against his Paramount-Warner Bros. merger. And it worked.

Following a massive behind the scenes campaign, Newsom sided with Ellison over working Californians and pressured Bonta to drop it.

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🚨👀Calling law students, recent grads, undergraduate students, and more! The American Economic Liberties Project is now accepting applications for our Fall and Summer internships.

Learn more and apply here: https://t.co/9s9PQtmAru

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Watch the full conversation on @majorityfm here: https://t.co/GBsHsGMXVJ

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"People in this country want champions that take on rich bullies."

WATCH: @BedoyaUSA calls out California politicians for betraying workers and settling to allow the Paramount-Skydance takeover of Warner Bros.