Skyrocketing executive salaries since deregulation in the 1980s helped the top 1 percent of Americans expand their share of income, even as worker pay has stagnated.
Since trespassing is already illegal, ag gag laws can only have one clear motive: to punish whistleblowers, advocates, and investigative reporters who use undercover recordings to reveal the abysmal conditions in which our food is produced.
As Rep. Keith Ellison points out, Republican lawmakers brought the country to the brink of default while trying to extract devastating spending cuts from Democrats.
