Industry lobbying under guise of pandemic stimuli pressing own interests behind closed doors

Without some investigative reporting, weak access-to-information and lobbying laws mean big corporate interests can get preferential meetings that they claim are for the public's benefit, never to be revealed.
During COVID times, special interests and major employers can blatantly lobby for their own well-being under the cover of COVID economic recovery behind closed doors, hoping their meetings will be kept secret, writes Ken Rubin.
The pandemic emergency has been used by business interests to gain access to government officials to present corporate demands while claiming that they want to help out during this health crisis. Here are a few major examples th...

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