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- Corporations’ free pass to bribe foreign officials.
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- The unexpected return of the $15 minimum wage.
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TODAY'S NUGGETS
🚔 Law and order, except if you’re a corporation. After the Trump administration froze enforcement of federal anti-corruption law banning the bribing of foreign officials, new guidance released this week reveals the Department of Justice will narrow the scope of its Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations to individual conduct that “directly undermines U.S. national interests,” meaning corporations are off the hook at home for their wrongdoing abroad.