With the Trump administration bringing block grants back into fashion, it is vital that policymakers understand how these programs have worked in practice to reduce funding for programs for the economically vulnerable.
Although the Safe Drinking Water Act establishes regulations for lead contamination in water, the citizens of Flint, Michigan went years before the Environmental Protection Agency took action to enforce those regulations. What are the limits of the EPA’s responsibility for ensuring safe drinking water, and what can be improved?
U.S. consumers spend billions every year automatically paying credit card bills for services for which they don’t realize they are being charged. This paper addresses the United States Federal Trade Commission’s attempts to regulate such negative option billing provisions, and advocates for regulations limiting the temporal scope of negative option billing for unused services.