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Corporate influence

Safety margin
Editorial Cartoons | Corporate influence, Environment, Labor, Regulation
April 3, 2013 — Have a higher resolution monitor? Click here for screen resolutions of 1280 x 960 or better, or here for 1920 x 1200 or better.  view
Reading the writing on the wall
Editorial Cartoons | Corporate influence, Politics
Feb. 27, 2013 — Have a higher resolution monitor? Click here for screen resolutions of 1280 x 960 or better, or here for 1920 x 1200 or better.view
Kennedy and Nixon as partners on health care reform
Letters to the Editor | Corporate influence, Health care, Insurance
Feb. 15, 2013 — All in all, “Managed Cost, Mismanaged Care” is pretty accurate — with one big exception. I know that congressional health care leaders (at least in 1971) did not view HMOs and...view
The role of the New Democrats in the explosion of managed care
Original Reporting |
Meade Klingensmith
 | Corporate influence, Health care, Insurance
Feb. 20, 2013 — The “New Democrats” of the 1990s — those who thought the Democratic Party should move further to the right and position itself as a “centrist” alternative to the GOP — promoted a...view
Managed cost, mismanaged care
Original Reporting |
Meade Klingensmith
 | Corporate influence, Health care, Insurance
Feb. 13, 2013 — Dr. Molly Droge is the chair of the subcommittee on access to care at the American Academy of Pediatrics. Growing up in West Texas, she lived next door to an old general practice...view
Workers’ out-of-pocket health insurance costs to go through the roof?
Map & Data Resources |
Mike Alberti
 | Corporate influence, Health care, Insurance
Oct. 24, 2012 — As explained in the accompanying article, the main reason motivating an employer to move to a defined contribution system is to reduce its own cost curve for employee benefits below...view
Gusher
Editorial Cartoons | Corporate influence, Environment
Oct. 17, 2012 — Have a higher resolution monitor? Click here for screen resolutions of 1280 x 960 or better, or here for 1920 x 1200 or better.view
Officials defend secrecy on business subsidies
Original Reporting |
Mike Alberti
 | Corporate influence, Open government
Oct. 10, 2012 — This past January, Brian Cronin, Democratic caucus chair in the Republican-controlled Idaho state legislature, introduced the Idaho Corporate Tax Incentive Accountability Act, which...view
It’s like signing a blank check
Original Reporting |
Mike Alberti
 | Corporate influence, Open government
Sept. 26, 2012 — In the early 1990’s, while Robert Lynch was teaching economics at the State University of New York at Cortlandt, he became interested in one of the state’s most-touted economic...view
“But everybody does it” — Cities and states addicted to soliciting for corporate favors
Original Reporting |
Mike Alberti
 | Corporate influence, Open government
Sept. 12, 2012 — When executives from the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus announced their plans to build a new $600 million factory in Mobile, Alabama in early July, local politicians...view