Minnesota made wage theft a felony six years ago, now the state has its first conviction. Frederick Leon Newell will be sentenced in June for stealing $35,000 from five workers he employed as a painting contractor for an affordable housing development.

"It’s become clear there is a deeper damage Mr. Trump may do to workers: We’re seeing a troubling revival in the old neoliberal Washington-Wall Street consensus on trade." — Sherrod Brown nytimes.com/2025/04/20/opi…

If policymakers weren't so oriented to big corporations, they might realize that small-scale manufacturing could "ramp up quickly and broadly, as it did in response to COVID-19.” The key to this isn't tariffs, but zoning, low-cost capital, and antitrust. governing.com/management-and…

In today’s Financial Times, Commissioner Slaughter and I wrote about the broader implications of the president’s attempt to remove us from office.

NEW: At least 10 states lose over $100 million per year in tax revenue to data centers. The loss of revenue is surely worse than we can yet document — of the 32 states with data center tax incentives, 12 fail to disclose even *aggregate* revenue losses. 👇🏾 goodjobsfirst.org/runaway-data-c…

🚨Still confirming, but just heard that the Justice Department is dissolving its Consumer Protection Branch, compounding the impact of the assault on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, as well as heightened need to protect people from fraud & scams due to economic turmoil.

Cal-Maine, the dominant egg producer, wants to use the monopoly profits it has extracted though inflated egg prices to buy a breakfast food manufacturer. This is a merger that should be blocked. fooddive.com/news/cal-maine…

“When we fight, we can win.” ron knox’s new zine, out now from Microcosm Publishing, examines the growing movement to reject monopoly control and serves as a practical guide to help you — and your friends, neighbors, and coworkers — join the fight for a more democratic future. 1/2

NEW on #Capitalisnt: Former FTC Chair Lina Khan joins Zingales and Bethany McLean to reflect on her tenure, her vision of capitalism, and highlights the antitrust issues to pay attention to moving forward. Listen now: capitalisnt.com/episodes/lina-…

The FTC just voted 3-0 to drop this case — that's effectively an endorsement of the predatory tactics Walmart uses to crush local grocery sores, create food deserts, and drive up prices. This will hit working-class, rural, and Black communities hardest.