While global health advocates applauded the Biden administration’s recent decision to support waiving intellectual property protections for Covid-19 vaccines as “critical,” “transformative,” and “unquestionably the right...
Royal Dutch Shell vowed last September to reach net-zero carbon pollution in its business by 2050. The goal was vague...
A lobby group representing oil and chemical companies, including Shell, Exxon, Total, DuPont and Dow, has been pushing the Trump...
Recently, the Federal Reserve announced that it would be loosening its lending guidelines so that more corporations, even those with...
US fossil fuel companies have taken at least $50m in taxpayer money they probably won’t have to pay back, according...
Some of the largest coal companies in the United States are using the coronavirus crisis to pressure Congress to slash...
ExxonMobil is a company capable of contradictions. It has been lobbying against government efforts to address climate change while running ads touting its own...
Corporations / Lobbyists / Richest One Percent / Taxes
by onepercenttakers · Published January 1, 2020
A “disturbing” New York Times story published Monday detailed how President Donald Trump’s Treasury Department, led by former Goldman Sachs banker Steve...
A new report from ProPublica and Columbia Journalism Investigations, published Tuesday, found that President Donald Trump’s campaign vow to “drain the swamp”...
An Axios analysis released Wednesday found that spending on healthcare advertisements has exceeded $65 million in 2019 as dark money...
If you’re wondering why Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is refusing to advance a bipartisan bill to expand background checks...
It was “like clockwork.” In the middle of a heated back-and-forth on Medicare for All at the beginning of Tuesday...
According to a new analysis by Think Progress, healthcare groups are ramping up their spending and giving to Democrats on...
The 88 senators who have declined to support the the Green New Deal have collected close to $59 million, according...
Corruption / Lobbyists / Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published January 11, 2019
The most important thing we must do to save our democracy is get big money out of politics. It’s a...
A new analysis shows US greenhouse gas levels are increasing as the Trump administration unravels efforts to slow climate change. Carbon...
Corruption / Environment / Lobbyists
by onepercenttakers · Published December 13, 2018 · Last modified December 19, 2018
When the Trump administration laid out a plan this year that would eventually allow cars to emit more pollution, automakers,...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to roll back an Obama-era rule meant to reduce the risks of chemical disasters...
Donald Trump is already caving to the National Rifle Association less than two weeks after a gunman took the lives...
Just when we thought the National Rifle Association couldn’t be any more repugnant, the extremist gun organization rises to the...
Israel now receives $3.2 billion in direct foreign assistance, courtesy of American taxpayers each year. This is about one-fifth of...
In the final weeks of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, he pledged to “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C. by, among...
We hear a lot these days about how fossil fuel companies are spending large amounts of money to influence policy...
The Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute just released a report analyzing the top 25 US investor-owned electric utilities, and one...
A network of Republican lawmakers and their rightwing corporate funders are battling behind closed doors to block minimum wage increases...
by onepercenttakers · Published January 29, 2015 · Last modified November 11, 2015
Recently, Congress has passed measures to weaken regulations in Dodd-Frank that are intended to reduce the risk of another financial...
Lobbyists / Politics / Wall Street
by onepercenttakers · Published December 13, 2014 · Last modified November 22, 2015
The House’s narrow passage of a massive spending bill that included a provision gutting a key financial regulatory reform is...
by onepercenttakers · Published October 19, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
There may be no Washington lawmaker cozier with K Street than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). DC law firms...
by onepercenttakers · Published October 15, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
What does “SWIMNUT” know that the world’s supposed experts on corruption or the elites who gather each year for skiing...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 24, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
The fast food industry is hoping that a day of lobbying on Capitol Hill can blunt the momentum that fast...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 2, 2014 · Last modified November 28, 2015
At least 72 corporate funders have cut ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in the wake of the...
Even as the Environmental Protection Agency finally attempts to limit carbon dioxide pollution from coal plants, it is meeting resistance...
After forty years of pushing corporate-friendly policy in state legislatures, this week the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is launching...
Lobbyists / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published August 3, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
ALEC holds its 41st annual meeting in Dallas, Texas starting on Wednesday, July 30, 2014. At this largest of its...
by onepercenttakers · Published July 19, 2014 · Last modified August 6, 2014
Every business sector has its friends in Washington. Financial companies — from the biggest megabanks to small payday lenders —...
A majority of the Senate voted to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour recently, yet the bill failed...
Corporations / Lobbyists / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published May 15, 2014 · Last modified September 3, 2014
Organized labor has been under attack for decades, with devastating results for the middle class. Wages have not kept up...
by onepercenttakers · Published May 3, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
The Koch-backed, right-wing lobbying group, ALEC, is planning a coordinated attack on the EPA’s plan to limit carbon emissions from...
Corporations / Lobbyists / Politics
by onepercenttakers · Published April 11, 2014 · Last modified September 7, 2014
A new chart released by Stop Fooling California reveals that the oil industry, including the Western States Petroleum Association, Chevron,...
"Ronald Reagan's theory was really 'trickle down' economics...and renamed 'supply side.' Cut tax rates for the wealthy; everyone else will benefit. As Reagan's budget director David Stockman confided at the time, the supply-side rhetoric 'was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.'" —The Gipper's Economy. To see how the Trickle Down Con was sold to the public click here.
