The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. LEGAL

Homeowners who challenged the authority of the government to seize their property for economic development face imminent eviction.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Special Projects Counsel Hans Bader on how property seizures through eminent domain amount to corporate welfare.

2. LABOR

Immigration advocates challenge the Senate-passed guest worker program for immigrant workers.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Journalism Fellow Timothy Carney on how sugar growers have turned to the government to guarantee cheap labor.

3. ENERGY

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Bastiat Fellow Doug Bandow on why market signals are the best policy for regulating our use of fossil fuels.

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