Often, those folks have the wrong skills, are in the wrong places and are too poor to relocate. The American Rescue Plan does virtually nothing to aid reskilling and relocation.
With the productive potential of the U.S. economy downsized, the stimulus will create too much demand chasing too few goods, lots of imports and inflation and leave the structurally unemployed unable to pay rent or put food on the table.
Rebuilding better requires smart investments green policies that encourage carbon-use-reducing investments that doesn’t outrun scientific advances. Otherwise government mandates create buildings too expensive to attract tenants, electricity too expensive or unreliable for factories to compete with Asian imports and more working-class unemployment.
The Federal Trade Commission previously announced its annual adjustment for notification thresholds regarding proposed mergers and acquisitions under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act, and the adjustments went into effect on March 4, 2021.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced reporting thresholds under Section 7A of the Clayton Act, known as the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Antitrust Improvements Act of.
Congress Is Leaning Towards a Big Tech Breakup
Hal Singer is a managing director of Econ One and an adjunct professor at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business. He is also the co-author of the e-book The Need for Speed: A New Framework for Telecommunications Policy for the 21st Century (Brookings Press 2013), and co-author of the book Broadband in Europe: How Brussels Can Wire the Information Society (Kluwer/Springer Press 2005). He is a recipient of the 2018 Antitrust Enforcement Award from the American Antitrust Institute for his work In Re Lidoderm Antitrust Litigation.
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The dominant platforms have proven themselves to be ungovernable. Behavioral remedies, especially those that require continuous oversight, might be pushed aside. The only issue now is whether structural remedies will come via Congress or via a specialized tribunal.
March 10, 2021 An individual filed a class-action complaint on Tuesday against his former employer, Surgical Care Affiliates LLC (SCA), and affiliated entities, alleging Sherman Act and Clayton Act violations through lowering employee wages in an anticompetitive conspiracy among other companies in the market. The Northern District of Illinois lawsuit came on the heels of a Jan. 5 Department of Justice criminal indictment against SCA, claiming the company and others were colluding to control the labor market.
SCA owns and operates about 230 outpatient care facilities across the country, serving around 1 million patients every year, with approximately 10,000 employees, according to the complaint. Plaintiff Allen Spradling was an employee of SCA from Sept. 22, 2008, until April 26, 2013, as a manager of the program management office and then as director of information technology.