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Democratic Capitalism: Why Political and Economic Freedom Need Each Other
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Minimum Wage Increases Canceled Out by Non-Wage Losses: CEI Report
Is raising the minimum wage good for workers? A new report from the Competitive Enterprise Institute makes the case that there are serious tradeoffs lawmakers should consider that are not the obvious, most talked about downsides.
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CEI's Ryan Young (@RegoftheDay) releases a new report showing the impact of raising the #minimumwage: "Higher labor costs force employers to cut non-wage benefits, like free meals, flexible leave arrangements, and health insurance coverage."
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Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions
SUMMARY Modern doomsayers have been predicting climate and environmental disaster since the 1960s. They continue to do so today. None of the apocalyptic predictions with due dates as of today have come true. What follows is a collection of notably...
Big Picture in 'Vaping-Linked' Lung Poisonings
Over the last three months, the news has been filled with stories of people falling ill from a mystery lung ailment supposedly caused by vaping. The majority of the coverage has been incomplete, inaccurate, and done little more than scare and...
Lead State AG in Antitrust Suit Misleadingly Inflated Google’s Size in the Wall Street Journal
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is spearheading a multistate antitrust investigation into Google, made an egregious error.
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.@KenPaxtonTX makes it seem like Google controls over 80 percent of the online advertising market. CEI's @PatHedgerCEI shares why this is completely false. bit.ly/32FSMGd pic.twitter.com/LTWqg7bZzZ
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Trump Ban on Flavored E-Cigarettes Will Cost Lives
President Trump today indicated his administration plans to seek a ban on flavored e-cigarettes, citing concerns over teen vaping and the spate of recent, much-reported lung illnesses afflicting hundreds of people who vaped various substances....
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"Banning flavors won’t prevent youth vaping but will drive adults back to smoking or into the black market" says CEI's @michelleminton
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The Millionaires and Billionaires of Environmental Politics
There’s a story that’s told in newspapers, on news networks, and in the buzzing of Twitter. In this story, there’s a clear good guy, a heroic underdog fighting the good fight, and a clear villain cackling in a corporate boardroom. This is a tale of...
Consumer Choice Is Not Elitist
Rep. Frank Pallone, D-New Jersey, thinks it’s fine that your new dishwasher takes more than 2 hours to complete a cycle — we think consumers should
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"Thanks to federal efficiency regulations from the Department of @ENERGY, dishwasher cycle times more than doubled, so CEI leaped into action in response to consumer complaints." - @LibertyDevin for @InsideSourcesDC
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Dietary Guidelines for Americans (Except Those with Eating Disorders)
The goal of the government's Dietary Guidelines for Americans is to provide simple advice that promotes nutritional health, but for millions of Americans it may do exactly the opposite. The recommendations, issued by the U.S. Department of...
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CEI's @michelleminton shares that recommendations in the Dietary Guideline for Americans may promote malnutrition in certain people. Learn more
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The Trump Economy
There’s a lot for him to take credit for.
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.@NRO cites CEI's @10kc report in @RAVerBruggen's analysis of the Trump economy. Read more bit.ly/2Y6Uoe7 pic.twitter.com/7Mjs649EIc
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Growth Slows as Tariffs Bite
Economic growth slowed in the second quarter of 2019, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. It remained above 2% thanks to a combination of personal consumption and federal and state government spending. Business investment, however,...
CEI Files Formal Complaint Regarding NASA's Claim of 97% Climate Scientist Agreement on Global Warming
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) petitioned NASA to remove from its website the claim that 97 percent of climate scientists agree humans are responsible for global warming. The petition, filed under the Information Quality Act (IQA),...
Transforming Surface Transportation Reauthorization
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National Donut Day: Eat One for Yourself and One for Freedom
The Competitive Enterprise Institute first started its two-donut campaign back in 2010. There were some formidable issues back then, from childhood obesity to international tensions to the alleged terrors of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Those issues...
Markets, Not Mandates, Best Way to Manage Trash Disposal
Governments around the world often mandate recycling when there’s no market for the materials collected. Oftentimes, markets don’t exist simply because recycling certain materials requires more energy, water, and labor than making products from raw...
CEI Asks Supreme Court to Hear Michael Mann Defamation Case
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) today petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its appeal of CEI v. Michael Mann. At issue is criticism of Mann’s climate hockey stick that appeared on CEI’s blog in 2012. The petition argues that a 2018...
Federal Railroad Administration Withdraws Proposed 'Featherbedding' Train Crew Rule
railroads.PNG Today, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) released a draft notice indicating that it will be withdrawing a 2016 proposed rule that would have required trains to have at least two crewmembers onboard at all times during...
Trump Administration Ends Homecare Providers Dues Skim
Since 2000, state governments have diverted $1.4 billion from homecare providers and handed it to labor unions, according to the Freedom Foundation. For over a decade, states automatically deducted union dues payments from Medicaid payments intended...
Ten Thousand Commandments 2019
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The estimated $1.9 trillion “hidden tax” of federal regulations in the U.S. is greater than GDP of Russia, Spain, or Saudi Arabia. #10kc Learn more: cei.org/10kc pic.twitter.com/AbOd8wadTe
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Federal Government Illegally Fails to Account for at Least $1.9 Trillion in Estimated Regulatory Costs
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) today released the 2019 edition of Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State (10KC 2019), CEI’s annual survey of the size and scope of the federal regulatory burden.
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The federal government has failed to provide a legally required accounting of the regulatory costs it imposes on the rest of us. Today, @wayne_crews compiles a cost estimate of $1.9 trillion annually as part of the 2019 edition of our #10kc report.
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