I didn't really expect that the group boasting of having $100 million to spend on primaries would have a shrinking target list. Still waiting for anything close to a real victory from AIPAC in the year 2024

This survey over time actually shows the amount of time spent on homework by college students increasing more than 50% over the past 20 years

Good example of corporate defense bar and academic allies deceptively sowing doubt about FTC authority to ban non-competes. The conservative Burger Court said in 1986 that FTC Act is broader than Sherman Act; this is not confined to the Warren Court in the 1960s.

Non-competes increase wages, Eugene Scalia told me so files.lbr.cloud/public/2024-04…

FTC Non-compete rule has a bunch of excerpts from commenters who described how non-competes have affected them and their part of the market. The sort of thing that you are not likely to get from anything but a comment period on a rulemaking process.

@ftc's final rule banning non-competes also bans Training Repayment Agreement Provisions (TRAPs) that 'function to prevent a worker from seeking or accepting other work or starting a business after the employment associated with the TRAP.'

Two weeks ago at a private antitrust event, a Chamber of Commerce official said they would sue to block the noncompete ban. All politicians who get Chamber support should be asked whether they support businesses depriving their workers of economic liberty.
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Once again, we're getting all these final rules today and this month because the Biden administration is trying to beat a May deadline that protects them from reversal by a potentially Republican Congress and Trump next year, as we explain today:
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“New noncompetes banned for all workers as of effective date.”

The FTC just issued a complete ban on all employee non-competes. No carveouts, no limitations, no exceptions.

Wow!

This is mostly just jawboning and voluntary commitments with vague benchmarks, but I've been wondering when pension funds would get pressure on their investments that immiserate workers with worker money.
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Will the MAGA coalition split if Trump happens to lose in November? Robert Kuttner sees one man who could hold it together: J.D. Vance.
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