President Biden wants to lead a revival of antitrust enforcement, a campaign aimed most obviously at curbing the behavior of feral tech companies.
But Mr. Biden can’t achieve his goal of expanding fair competition in the United States solely by wrangling with Big Tech. To succeed, he’ll need to confront Big Chicken, too.
Most chicken that Americans eat is processed by a handful of big companies because, in recent decades, the government gave its blessing to the consolidation of poultry processing, along with a wide range of other industries. The unsurprising result: In recent years, the surviving companies took advantage of their market power to prop up the price of chicken, overcharging Americans by as much as 30 percent.
Evidence of the industry’s misconduct became so blatant — thanks in part to lawsuits filed by wholesale poultry buyers — that regulators were roused from complacency. Beginning in 2019, the government has filed a series of charges against...
Metro will require employees to be vaccinated against the coronavirus or submit to weekly tests as the transit agency looks to push its workforce vaccination rate higher while trying to boost rider confidence in the system.
President Biden wants to lead a revival of antitrust enforcement, a campaign aimed most obviously at curbing the behavior of feral tech companies.
But Mr. Biden can’t achieve his goal of expanding fair competition in the United States solely by wrangling with Big Tech. To succeed, he’ll need to confront Big Chicken, too.
Most chicken that Americans eat is processed by a handful of big companies because, in recent decades, the government gave its blessing to the consolidation of poultry processing, along with a wide range of other industries. The unsurprising result: In recent years, the surviving companies took advantage of their market power to prop up the price of chicken, overcharging Americans by as much as 30 percent.
Evidence of the industry’s misconduct became so blatant — thanks in part to lawsuits filed by wholesale poultry buyers — that regulators were roused from complacency. Beginning in 2019, the government has filed a series of charges against...
President Biden wants to lead a revival of antitrust enforcement, a campaign aimed most obviously at curbing the behavior of feral tech companies.
But Mr. Biden can’t achieve his goal of expanding fair competition in the United States solely by wrangling with Big Tech. To succeed, he’ll need to confront Big Chicken, too.
Most chicken that Americans eat is processed by a handful of big companies because, in recent decades, the government gave its blessing to the consolidation of poultry processing, along with a wide range of other industries. The unsurprising result: In recent years, the surviving companies took advantage of their market power to prop up the price of chicken, overcharging Americans by as much as 30 percent.
Evidence of the industry’s misconduct became so blatant — thanks in part to lawsuits filed by wholesale poultry buyers — that regulators were roused from complacency. Beginning in 2019, the government has filed a series of charges against...
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For the eighth year in a row, we asked teenagers around the world: What makes you mad? What would you like to see change? What do you wish more people understood?
This was the annual call for submissions to our Student Editorial Contest, in which we invite students ages 11 to 19 to tell us, in 450 words or fewer, about the issues that matter to them. This year, we received 11,202 entries — the most ever — from students from Singapore to Louisiana.
So, what is it that irks these young people? Among their grievances:
Snow days being replaced with remote learning. Food waste that contributes to climate change. Anti-Asian discrimination. The exploitation of gig workers. Expectations around women’s body hair. School shootings. Omission of the Oxford comma. A calculator company that has a monopoly in math classes. Gamers not being considered real athletes. And much, much more.
From among these thousands of editorials, we’ve chosen 10 winners, 16 runners-up...
Mr. Konczal, director of macroeconomic analysis at the Roosevelt Institute, is the recent author of “Freedom From the Market: America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand.” J.W. Mason is an economist at the Roosevelt Institute and a professor of economics at John Jay College, City University of New York
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