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Tag Archives: Consumer Protection

Two-thirds of Washington voters support barring gender-based price discrimination

Excerpt: 67% of 874 likely voters interviewed in March of 2023 by Public Policy Polling voiced support for prohibiting people or businesses "from charging different prices for two substantially similar goods based on the gender of the persons to whom the goods are marketed," which is what Senate Bill 5171 would do if enacted. 59% were strongly supportive and another 8% were somewhat supportive.  
Published at:2:14 PM on Tuesday, March 21st, 2023
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Civil Liberties, Economic Security, Policy Topics
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Senator Maria Cantwell: A workhorse for the people and the Pacific Northwest in Congress

Excerpt: Cantwell, sixty-four, is not one of the usual suspects seen on networks’ Sunday morning talk shows or shouting over talk radio. She gets stuff done by mastering details, quiet work with colleagues and by serving on a trio of A-list Senate committees where legislation is put together.
Published at:9:30 AM on Monday, February 13th, 2023
Written by:Joel Connelly
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An overwhelming majority of King County voters oppose the Kroger/Albertsons merger

Excerpt: 68% of respondents surveyed for NPI by Change Research said they opposed the merger, while just 17% said they supported it. Nearly half (48%) said they were strongly opposed, while only 5% were strongly supportive.
Published at:11:00 AM on Monday, November 7th, 2022
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Economic Security, Policy Topics, World Commmunity
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A majority of Washington voters agree more with Democrats about the causes of inflation

Excerpt: 50% of 782 likely voters interviewed for NPI by Public Policy from October 19th-20th said they agreed more with Democrats about the causes of inflation and price increases, while 43% agreed with Republicans more. 7% were not sure. 
Published at:8:30 AM on Tuesday, October 25th, 2022
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Federal, state governments allege Facebook is an illegal monopoly in major antitrust case

Excerpt: Having foolishly chosen to allow Facebook's acquisitions of Whatsapp and Instagram several years ago, the federal government is now belatedly moving to unwind those mergers as well as stop the growing power and anticompetitive behaviors of Facebook.
Published at:7:26 PM on Wednesday, December 9th, 2020
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Economic Security, Policy Topics, Technology, World Commmunity
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Democratic AGs discuss taking on Trump and building equity at Netroots Nation 2020

Excerpt: Attorneys general Phil Weiser, Xavier Becerra, Keith Ellison, and Maura Healey helped kickstart the conference with a substantive panel discussion.
Published at:1:00 PM on Thursday, August 13th, 2020
Written by:Rich Erwin
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Attorney General Bob Ferguson steps up to defend access to reproductive health services

Excerpt: A stickler for the rule of law, Washington's chief law enforcement officer has repeatedly taken on the Trump regime... and won.
Published at:10:00 AM on Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
Written by:Richard McCartan
Categories:Economic Security, Healthcare, Our Environment, Policy Topics
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U.S. Senate passes Republican-backed bill to weaken Dodd-Frank financial reforms

Excerpt: The United States Senate voted overwhelmingly today to begin dismantling the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, approving Idaho Senator Mike Crapo's S. 2155 by a vote of sixty-seven to thirty-one.
Published at:6:27 PM on Wednesday, March 14th, 2018
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Victory! Washington State House votes to toughen penalties for corporate crimes

Excerpt: Corporations that break the law in Washington State could soon be forced to pay more appropriate penalties for their wrongdoing thanks to the work of State Representative Mike Pellicciotti (D-30th District: Federal Way). By a vote of ninety-seven to one, the Washington State House of Representatives today voted to pass ESHB 2362, which would substantially increase fines for corporate crimes.
Published at:7:08 PM on Thursday, February 8th, 2018
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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U.S. Senate passes $1.1 trillion, giveaway-stuffed “cromnibus” bill in late night vote

Excerpt: Ear­li­er this evening, fol­low­ing in the foot­steps of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, the Unit­ed States Sen­ate passed the mas­sive appro­pri­a­tions bill that has become known as the CRom­nibus, send­ing the leg­is­la­tion to Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma, who is pre­pared to sign it with­out delay. The final vote was fifty-six to forty; four sen­a­tors did not vote. The […]
Published at:10:11 PM on Saturday, December 13th, 2014
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Republicans (predictably) filibuster Elizabeth Warren’s bill to ease student loan debt

Excerpt: A bill spon­sored by Mass­a­chu­setts Sen­a­tor Eliz­a­beth War­ren to ease stu­dent loan debt has sad­ly become the lat­est wor­thy piece of leg­is­la­tion to be stalled in the Unit­ed States Sen­ate by the Repub­li­can Par­ty, which might as well offi­cial­ly rename itself the Par­ty of No (because that is its answer to just about every good idea). […]
Published at:8:34 PM on Wednesday, June 11th, 2014
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Economic Security, Education, Policy Topics
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Scam alert! An unknown entity, the “Labor Standards Compliance Office”, is trying to sell labor posters with letters that look like bills

Excerpt: An unknown enti­ty call­ing itself the “Labor Stan­dards Com­pli­ance Office” is mass mail­ing decep­tive let­ters to Wash­ing­ton busi­ness­es and non­prof­its that appear to be bills from the gov­ern­ment, but are in real­i­ty solic­i­ta­tions for labor posters that can be freely obtained, the North­west Pro­gres­sive Insti­tute has learned. One of these sus­pi­cious-look­ing let­ters showed up this […]
Published at:8:21 PM on Wednesday, December 11th, 2013
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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U.S. House passes “Citibill” to partially roll back the Dodd-Frank Reform Act

Excerpt: Once again, some­thing is rot­ten in the peo­ple’s House. Ear­li­er today, the Repub­li­can-con­trolled U.S. House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives vot­ed two hun­dred and nine­ty-two to one hun­dred and twen­ty-two to pass H.R. 992, offi­cial­ly titled the Swaps Reg­u­la­to­ry Improve­ment Act. Like MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, we’re call­ing H.R. 992 Citibill because it was pri­mar­i­ly authored by Cit­i­group lob­by­ists. It […]
Published at:9:14 PM on Wednesday, October 30th, 2013
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Senate *finally* confirms Richard Cordray as Consumer Financial Protection Bureau chief

Excerpt: After months of sense­less delay, the Unit­ed States Sen­ate has final­ly con­firmed for­mer Ohio Attor­ney Gen­er­al Richard Cor­dray to serve as the Direc­tor of the Con­sumer Finan­cial Pro­tec­tion Bureau (CFPB) orig­i­nal­ly con­ceived by Eliz­a­beth War­ren and cre­at­ed by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act of 2010. By a vote of sev­en­ty-one to twen­ty-nine, the Sen­ate agreed […]
Published at:6:06 PM on Tuesday, July 16th, 2013
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Economic Security, Public Service
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