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GOP, Chamber of Commerce and Fox News: Did They Play a Role in the Fertilizer Plant Deaths?

Art Levine | Posted 04.26.2013 | Green
Read More: Epa, West Fertilizer Co., Gop, President Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Fertilizer Plant Explosion, West, Center for Progressive Reform, Fox News, Texas, Greenpeace, Chamber of Commerce, Sierra Club, Osha, West Texas Fertilizer Plant, West Texas Explosion, Texas Fertilizer Plant, Video, Green News
Art Levine

The evidence is now overwhelming that lax enforcement was abetted by the seven state and Federal agencies that looked the other way or failed to see its 270 tons of potentially explosive ammonium nitrate.

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This Is A Small Business?!

The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 03.15.2013 | Small Business
Read More: Small Business Lobbying, Sba, Small Business Administration, Center for Progressive Reform, Small Business Administration Lobbying, Small Business News

A watchdog group charged this week that the federal Small Business Administration lobbied on behalf of large corporations, adding to criticism that th...

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WATCH: U.S. Farm Worker Speaks About Slave-Like Conditions

The Huffington Post | Lindsay Wilkes-Edrington | Posted 02.01.2013 | HuffPost Live 321
Read More: HuffPost Live, Department of Agriculture, Farm Workers, United Farm Workers, Farm Worker Conditions, Farm Labor Conditions, Farm Labor, Live Video, Farm, Migrant Workers, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Undocumented Immigrant, Center for Progressive Reform, Farmworkers, HuffPost Live 321 News

For every 32 pounds of tomatoes Leonel Perez picks on Florida farmlands, he says he receives a piece rate of 50 cents. "That's a piece rate that ha...

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Dave Jamieson

The Hidden Dangers In Temp Work

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 01.11.2013 | Business
Read More: Farming, Hotels, Video, Temp Work, Subcontracting, Construction, Workplace Safety, Center for Progressive Reform, Temp Workers, Osha, Study, Warehouse-Workers, Business News

The growing use of temporary or "contingent" workers in American industries like construction and warehousing has helped diminish corporate accountabi...

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Dan Froomkin

Regulatory Spree Is Actually A Slow Slog, Two Groups Say

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 06.20.2011 | Politics
Read More: Obama Administration, Regulations, Center for Progressive Reform, Public Citizen, Regulatory Process, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The notion that the Obama administration has gone on a wild, job-killing regulatory spree has become one of the core articles of faith f...

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Do Regulations Cost $1.75 Trillion? Not Exactly

Sidney Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Regulation, Small Business Administration, Bush Administration, Health, Safety, Nicolee Crain, House Republicans, Environment, Office of Advocacy, Center for Progressive Reform, Health Care Legislation, Wall Street, Clinton Administration, Politics News
Sidney Shapiro

The opponents of regulation would love nothing more than to re-litigate all the battles they've lost over the years. They're free to try, but at the very least, they owe the American public an honest accounting.

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