Corporate power threatens everything — including our ability to avert the climate crisis. But we're starting to figure out that it doesn't have to be this way. We're starting to make new rules. It's a big deal. My talk at this year's Bioneers conference:
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No, seriously, Uber is deciding what driver gets what job based on their weight, whether they ever missed a payment, what political associations they have.

Algorithmic wage discrimination should be made illegal before it becomes the dominant business model.

🚨NEW: How Amazon Ate The Economy

How Amazon became a monopoly using its size against sellers & customers — and how a new lawsuit is challenging the company.

Terrific reporting from the WSJ’s Dana Mattioli & ISLR’s Stacy Mitchell.

Listen & share 👇 levernews.com/lever-time-ama…

Bright-line rules like the FTC’s ban on non-competes are superior public policy to an ad-hoc case-by-case review. Read my article in CPI for more on the benefits of rules and why we should have a lot more of them.
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Small businesses previously expressed concern about these partnerships. Last November, Small Business Rising sent a letter to the SBA asking them to cease relationship with monopolies.

Clearly, Isabel C Guzman and SBA did not listen. smallbusinessrising.net/updates/nsbw

The outpouring of support today for FTCs noncompetes ban is pretty rare; it shows that there’s a broad consensus out there on a set of reforms ready for the taking

Once again, we're getting all these final rules today and this month because the Biden administration is trying to beat a May deadline that protects them from reversal by a potentially Republican Congress and Trump next year, as we explain today:
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🚨NEW: The company that filed suit against the FTC's noncompete ban wants to be 'the Amazon of tax,' is led by a GOP mega-donor who advised Trump on tax policy, and a company brochure once read: 'We don’t just react to Texas tax changes. We engineer them'
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'How people experience freedom in their day-to-day lives often involves their economic relationships...[T]he expansion of noncompete clauses locks workers into existing jobs.'

From my interview with Lina Khan, whose FTC just banned noncompetes.

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