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Readable Research | By Samantha Cook | Budget deficit, Politics, Taxes

25 Democratic and Independent Senators voted to continue Bush tax cuts for 99.3 percent of households. What did they say when those cuts were enacted? More

SEC: always playing catch-up

Readable Research | By Raphael Pope-Sussman | Corporate influence, Regulation

Part 3 of Remapping Debate's series on chronic under-regulation examines the decades-long failure to make the SEC an enforcer equal to the task of policing an ever-more-powerful financial sector. More

Caution: going to work may still be dangerous to your health

Readable Research | By Abby Ferla | Regulation

Part 2 of Remapping Debate's series on chronic under-regulation examines the history of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The complaints about OSHA recur through the decades: under-funding, under-staffing, under-enforcement, lax penalties, a tortured process under which it routinely takes several years to promulgate regulations on a vast array of workplace hazards. More

Chronic under-regulation

Readable Research | By Abby Ferla | Health, Regulation

Remapping Debate begins a new series that examines recurring patterns of regulatory failure across industries, and across administrations. Part 1 looks at the FDA and the cosmetics industry: under-regulated for over 30 years. More

Let them rent cake: George Pataki, market ideology, and the attempt to dismantle rent regulation in New York

Readable Research | By Craig Gurian | Housing

With rent regulation set to expire next month if not renewed by the state legislature, and with New York's governor having failed to specify how, if at all, he would like the system strengthened, Remapping Debate looks back at the crucial moment when believers in market theology were able to weaken the regulation system profoundly. More