When Congress says you have to work 80 hours each month to get benefits, what they are really doing is handing $800 million dollars per year to one company: Equifax. They double dip, too. Three agencies in the same state have to pay three times for the same data. Read this👇🏻

The "will business speak out?" genre is absurd. Big biz lobbies dismantled democratic checks on corporate power, so now we've switched "do politicians answer to voters?" with "do corporate boards fear reputational damage?" This is not a legitimate substitute for democracy.

Today @EricLevitz at @voxdotcom argues Wall Street landlords are good for housing based on economic models and aggregate data. When the FTC investigated what Wall St. landlords actually do via internal emails, biz practices, renter complaints, they found a different story. 🧵