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Format: 05-20-2013
Format: 05-20-2013
Cracks in the Pipeline Part Two: High Frequency Trading
This is the second of a series of articles, entitled “The Financial Pipeline Series”, examining the underlying validity of the assertion that regulation of the financial markets reduces their...
March 8, 2013 | Report |
Wallace C. Turbeville
Employment Credit Checks: The Case for Requiring Employers to Use More Accurate and Fair Assessments
A core value of American society is the opportunity to work hard and get ahead. Yet today in the United States, willing job-seekers are facing a new barrier to employment—credit checks. Despite the...
November 5, 2012 | Policy Brief |
Ben Peck
Impact of the Independent Regulatory Analysis Act, S. 3468: Further Delaying Needed Safeguards for Our Economy
It seems reasonable to ask that this law, which would give the Executive Branch the power to extend its version of cost-benefit analysis to independent agencies, show that its benefits are greater...
September 12, 2012 | Policy Brief |
Ben Peck
Sign On Letter Opposing S. 3468, the Independent Agency Regulatory Analysis Act of 2012
We, the undersigned consumer, small business, labor, good government, financial protection, community, health, environmental, and public interest groups - strongly urge you to oppose S. 3468, the...
September 7, 2012 | Advocacy Letter |
Demos
Alaskan Lives At Risk: The Local Impact of Federal “Regulatory Reform” Proposals
Americans’ lives, health and livelihoods would be put at risk if so called “regulatory reform” proposals now being considered by the U.S. Congress were to become law, slowing or stopping the...
April 3, 2012 | Policy Brief |
Ben Peck
Alaska PIRG
Ohio Lives At Risk: The Local Impact of Federal “Regulatory Reform” Proposals
Americans’ lives, health and livelihoods would be put at risk if so called “regulatory reform” proposals now being considered by the U.S. Congress were to become law, slowing or stopping the...
April 3, 2012 | Policy Brief |
Ben Peck
Ohio PIRG
Pennsylvania Lives At Risk: The Local Impact of Federal “Regulatory Reform”
Americans’ lives, health and livelihoods would be put at risk if so called “regulatory reform” proposals now being considered by the U.S. Congress were to become law, slowing or stopping the...
April 3, 2012 | Policy Brief |
Ben Peck
PennPIRG
Massachusetts Lives At Risk: The Local Impact of Federal “Regulatory Reform” Proposals
Americans’ lives, health and livelihoods would be put at risk if so called “regulatory reform” proposals now being considered by the U.S. Congress were to become law, slowing or stopping the...
April 3, 2012 | Policy Brief |
Ben Peck
MASSPIRG
Lives At Risk: The Local Impact of Federal “Regulatory Reform” Proposals
Americans’ lives, health and livelihoods would be put at risk if so called “regulatory reform” proposals now being considered by the U.S. Congress were to become law, slowing or stopping the...
April 3, 2012 | Policy Brief |
Ben Peck
US PIRG
Demos Urges Congress Members to Vote “No” on Three Major Deregulatory Bills
Demos, a national non-partisan, non-profit policy research organization, strongly disapproves of the following pieces of legislation that are scheduled for a vote on the House floor in the next few...
December 1, 2011 | Advocacy Letter |
Heather C. McGhee