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Generative Artificial Intelligence and Threats to Democracy

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Every day, Big Banks, Big Polluters, and Big Tech companies are threatening our economy, our environment, and our democracy – sacrificing Main Street Americans and our families on the altar of corporate profits. Public Citizen advocates for ordinary people by taking on corporate interests and their cronies in government.

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Health care in the U.S. leaves too many people out, costs too much and doesn’t meet acceptable standards of quality. Much of the care that we get is unaffordable, unnecessary or harmful. Public Citizen advocates Medicare for All, stronger oversight of dangerous doctors and safe clinical trials.

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Report: Ranking of the Rate of State Medical Boards’ Serious Disciplinary Actions, 2021-2023

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Global Trade Watch has led the fight against corporate-rigged “trade” agreements that provide special powers for Big Pharma to raise medicine prices, promote the outsourcing of jobs to low-wage countries and undermine the food safety and other safeguards on which our families rely.

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The climate crisis is the challenge of our time. We can fix it with solutions that will make us healthier and more economically secure. We must act quickly to make our economy run on renewable power — and ensure that disadvantaged families and displaced workers share equitably in the new economy. We also must fight the corrupting power of fossil fuel companies and ensure that energy regulators are effective and publicly accountable.

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Climate Roadmap for U.S. Financial Regulation

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Jobs, Wages and Economic Outcomes

Agriculture & Development

Learn more about how trade policies affect farmers and agricultural production around the globe.

Immigration

Learn more about the link between bad trade policies and our current immigration crisis.

Jobs & Wages

Learn more about how NAFTA, the WTO and other trade agreements destroy good jobs and exert downward pressure on wages.

Outsourcing

Learn more about how current trade policies encourage companies to send their production (and jobs) offshore.

Trade Deficit

Learn more about how our current policies are rapidly increasing an already enormous trade deficit.

Import Safety, Environment and Health

Environmental Sustainability

Learn more about how environmental protections and public health regulations are threatened by trade agreements.

Imported Food & Product Safety

Learn more about how trade agreements undermine the safety of imported food and products.

Sovereignty and Federalism in Trade Agreements

Dispute Resolution & Trade Tribunals

Learn more about the undemocratic trade tribunals that are empowered to overrule domestic law.

Standardization/Harmonization

Learn more about the trade agreement-enforced downward pressure on global standards and regulations.

State and Local Governance

Learn more about how trade agreements constrict state and local policymaking authority.

Chapter 11 Foreign Investor Protections

Learn more about the NAFTA “Chapter 11” model of radical private foreign investor protections.

Deregulation and Access to Services

Energy & Climate

Learn more about how energy and climate change policies are affected by restrictions in the WTO, NAFTA and similar trade agreements.

Environment & Zoning

Learn more about how environmental protections, land use and zoning policies are affected by restrictions in the WTO, NAFTA and similar trade agreements.

Financial Services

Learn more about how the radical deregulatory agenda of the WTO and other “trade” agreements has been a root cause of the current global financial crisis.

Health & Education

Learn more about how public health and higher education policies are affected by restrictions in the WTO, NAFTA and similar trade agreements.

Tell Congress: Pass the Protecting Our Democracy Act

Generative Artificial Intelligence and Threats to Democracy

Protecting Elected Officials from Threats

Get Corporate Money Out of Politics

It’s Time to Cut the Bloated Pentagon Budget to Fund People, Not Military Contractors

Ensuring Public Money Does Not Go To Private Equity

Don’t Let Big Tech Write Our Digital Privacy Laws

Public Citizen Calls on Presidential Candidates, Parties to Pledge Not to Use Dangerous, Manipulative Deepfakes

Within Reach: Banker Pay Reform

Tell President Biden: Make Meds Affordable

Win Medicare for All

Report: Ranking of the Rate of State Medical Boards’ Serious Disciplinary Actions, 2021-2023

Report: Thirty-One Years of Pharmaceutical Industry Criminal and Civil Penalties: 1991-2021

Join the Trade Justice Movement

Tell Toyota: Go all-in on EVs

Climate Roadmap for U.S. Financial Regulation

Toyota’s Troubling Electric Vehicle Track Record

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Jobs, Wages and Economic Outcomes

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Jobs & Wages

Outsourcing

Trade Deficit

Import Safety, Environment and Health

Environmental Sustainability

Imported Food & Product Safety

Sovereignty and Federalism in Trade Agreements

Dispute Resolution & Trade Tribunals

Standardization/Harmonization

State and Local Governance

Chapter 11 Foreign Investor Protections

Deregulation and Access to Services

Energy & Climate

Environment & Zoning

Financial Services

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