The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. BUSINESS

General Motors goes forward with plans to fire salaried workers at 30 U.S. locations, cutting health care and pensions benefits for those that remain.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Editorial Director Ivan Osorio on how the federal government has contributed to the problem of under-funded corporate pensions.

2. ENVIRONMENT

A study in the journal Science predicts rapid sea level rise from the effects of global warming on polar ice sheets.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on what we know about rising tides and melting glaciers.

3. POLITICS

Google, once a maverick outsider, joins the herd of big companies with Washington, D.C. lobbyists.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Read President Fred L. Smith, Jr.’s classic essay on What’s Wrong with Business Lobbyists.

4. INTERNET

Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang defends his company’s cooperation with the filtering requests of Chinese authorities.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President for Policy Clyde Wayne Crews and Assistant Editorial Director Peter Suderman and why U.S. tech companies shouldn’t run from investment in China.

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