Our friends at Color of Change have just announced that Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) has decided to leave the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC): “This week I spoke with an executive at Blue Cross Blue Shield who told me that the company did not renew its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council this
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The past few weeks have not treated the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) well. At least ten companies or major foundations have dropped out of the group after protests raged over its role in drafting voter suppression and “Stand Your Ground” laws. In apparent response to these protests, ALEC has now announced in a press
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The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is the most powerful corporate front group you’ve never heard of. Drawing the vast majority of its financing from big corporations, the group allows these firms to help write bills that it then secretly passes off to state legislators to get turned into laws. The organization has come under
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Corporate front group ALEC — which lets big corporations write legislation and then pass it off to state legislatures to be enacted — is hurting. In recent days, six major corporations and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have decided to stop funding the group, which has been engaged in pushing voter suppression and “Stand
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You’ve heard their names. University of Phoenix. Kaplan University. Full Sail University. These for-profit schools promise their students great jobs and opportunities, but often end up delivering little else than tens of thousands of dollars of debt and useless credits or diplomas. What makes matters worse is that these subprime schools get billions of dollars
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Over half a dozen corporations and major foundations have left the corporate front group American Legislative Exchange Council in recent days after intense scrutiny over its role in voter suppression and promoting lethal “Stand Your Ground” laws. Now, the Arizona Capitol Times reports that Arizona Public Service, the state’s largest energy company, will be leaving
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Yesterday, SKDKnickerbocker’s Hilary Rosen set off a media frenzy by saying that Mitt Romney’s wife Ann Romney has never “worked a day in her life.” This set off calls for Rosen to apologize to Ann Romney, who chooses to be a stay at home mother. News reports and some critics of Rosen described her as
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Last night, Hilary Rosen shockingly claimed that Mitt Romney’s wife, Ann Romney, “actually never worked a day in her life,” referring to Romney’s role as a stay-at-home mom. Watch her remarks: Rosen’s remarks have set off a firestorm in the media. As press outlets rushed to cover the controversy, they frequently referred to her as
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