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President Jimmy Carter signs the Staggers Rail Act into law on October 14, 1980. Representative Harley O. Staggers, sponsor of the bill, stands to the president's right.. The Staggers Rail Act of 1980 is a United States federal law that deregulated the American railroad industry to a significant extent, and it replaced the regulatory structure that had existed since the Interstate Commerce Act ...
Critics of deregulation often cite the need of regulation in order to: [48] create a level playing field and ensure competition (e.g., by ensuring new energy providers have competitive access to the national grid); maintain quality standards for services (e.g., by specifying qualification requirements for service providers);
Motor carrier deregulation was a part of a sweeping reduction in price controls, entry controls, and collective vendor price setting in United States transportation, begun in 1970-71 with initiatives in the Richard Nixon Administration, carried out through the Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter Administrations, and continued into the 1980s, collectively seen as a part of deregulation in the United ...
Economic liberalization, or economic liberalisation, is the lessening of government regulations and restrictions in an economy in exchange for greater participation by private entities.
A number of prominent companies have scaled back or set aside the diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that much of corporate America endorsed following the protests that accompanied the ...
Proponents warn that continued rollbacks may endanger recent advances. TECH CONTRACTS Reuters spoke with at least three tech executives whose companies have contracts with the U.S. government.
In these industries, we must strive to create a regulatory climate which relies on competitive forces, rather than on inflexible and bureaucratic directives of Federal agencies, to determine which firm will provide the desired transportation services and at what price. The time has come to place greater reliance on market competition.
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