How a Shadow Drug Industry Tries to Avoid Regulation
Last year an outbreak of meningitis killed 53 people in 20 states and sickened more than 720 nationwide. It was caused by a tainted steroid distributed by the New England Compounding Center (NECC), which is part of an obscure $2 billion-a-year niche of the pharmaceutical industry called "compounding pharmacies."
Now some members of Congress are trying to reign in this shadow drug industry. But the industry is fighting back, using its political clout to resist federal standards.
Consider the Source: 100 years of Broken Record Opposition to the Minimum Wage
In her Congressional testimony from 1959, Eleanor Roosevelt noted the repetitive quality of objections raised by minimum wage opponents over the previous five decades. More than 50 years later, it appears that nothing has changed. Our new report, published with the National Employment Law Project, documents the rhetorical onslaught launched by minimum wage opponents over the past 100 years.
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"[Regulations in the Clean air Act] could effectively ban important new large-scale construction in the future. "
"So-called social security [will] mean industrial in-security. "
Time and again, conservatives and business groups have "cried wolf" to delay, prevent and weaken common sense regulations that save lives, clean our environment and make our families more secure. The Cry Wolf Project debunks these claims, demonstrating that these reforms in fact led to real, positive results. 