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FTC opens inquiry into baby formula shortage

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced an inquiry Tuesday into the infant formula shortage and said it will assess the impact of mergers and acquisitions in the market.

The agency said it will investigate bots reselling formula at “exorbitant prices” and seek public comment on the factors that “contributed to the shortage or hampered our ability to respond to it.”

The shortage stems from the shutdown of an Abbott Nutrition factory in February due to safety concerns about certain formulas produced at the plant in Michigan.  

“The FTC can also examine the infant formula industry to identify the factors that created such a fragile market, where a single disruption at a single plant can jeopardize supply,” FTC Chair Lina Khan said in a statement.

Earlier this month, the Biden administration reached an agreement with Abbott to reopen the facility. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf said last week that it would be a matter of weeks before the Abbott plant is up and running again.  

Abbott and three other companies — Nestle USA, Perrigo and Mead Johnson Nutrition – control about 90 percent of the domestic infant formula market.

The FTC said as part of the inquiry it will conduct an analysis of the shortage alongside the Department of Agriculture, which administers the government’s nutrition program for women, infants and children (WIC). WIC participants buy about half the baby formula in the U.S., making the program the nation’s largest purchaser of formula.

“The agencies will use this analysis to help determine what policy changes might be necessary to promote competition and resiliency in the infant formula market to prevent future shortages,” Khan said.

President Biden signed bipartisan legislation aimed at expanding the pandemic-era flexibilities granted to WIC participants on Saturday. WIC benefits restrict the types of formulas that recipients can buy, as part of the program’s contracting rule.

Biden launched an initiative last week to expedite shipments of baby formula from overseas, dubbed “Operation Fly Formula,” with the first shipment arriving over the weekend. He also invoked the Defense Production Act to speed up production of formula domestically.  

The FTC also said it would leverage the “lessons learned” from the shortage to other fragile, highly regulated markets.

“The FTC will do everything within its power to ensure the markets for other life-sustaining and vital products are competitive and resilient, protecting the ability of Americans to access critical goods even amid disruptions,” Khan said.

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Learning to speak each other’s language worth the time and effort

With Americans so predisposed to disagree with and misunderstand one another, it’s almost as if liberals and conservatives are speaking different languages. To overcome our partisan divide, therefore, requires learning the language of those with whom we vigorously disagree. The problem — beyond our initial ideological resistance to better acquainting ourselves with those who are different from us — is that learning a new language is hard and the long-run benefits are not always easy to see up front. Additionally, to really learn a new language, we must immerse ourselves in it, and our brains just aren’t wired to see things from a totally different perspective.

As the notion of political languages makes clear, not every language is associated with a country or region. Economics is a language of sorts, and with its speech comes a way of thinking. Economists love jargon like “efficiency” and “opportunity cost.” But what’s even more challenging than the lexicon is that unless we are raised in a world where economic tradeoffs are ingrained in our thinking, concepts like these can end up always feeling a little foreign. Just knowing the definitions isn’t enough because full appreciation of the words requires more. It’s like teaching an agnostic how to be religious. We have to train ourselves to see the world through a different lens. It isn’t natural; it has to be learned through experience.

That challenge speaks to how language in whatever form, as much as it helps us and is necessary for communication, can also lead to communication breakdown. Take the aforementioned term “opportunity cost” in economics. The term is used in multiple ways by economists. Sometimes it means “the very best alternative to something.” Other times it simply means “what would have happened otherwise.” A problem arises when an economist uses the term one way, and it gets interpreted as having its other meaning, with confusion being the end result.

For example, if I take a job as an economist, I might forgo a job as a neurosurgeon. That might be my best alternative. But it’s far from obvious that’s what I’d actually be doing if I wasn’t an economist. Maybe I’d be a preacher, a coach, a translator, or the president — who knows?

Over time some languages become obsolete. That must be a scary prospect. My ancestors were mostly Irish, and the Irish language has been all but eradicated, having been displaced by English. There is an enormous irony here given the ill-treatment the Irish received from the British over the centuries. History is replete with examples like this.

Technology is similar. Learning to write Python code can be just as hard as speaking a new language (hence why it’s called a programming language). If you don’t believe me, get in a room full of programmers and see how much of what they say you understand. Moreover, one technology tends to replace another, and the unsettling process of replacement creates winners and losers. Humanity might be better off in the long run, but in the short run, Betamax repairmen have an obsolete skill and lose jobs.

It’s easy to see how an economist, speaking in terms of creative destruction and of the benefits of technological change, might be misunderstood by someone more versed in the language of sentimentality, basically what’s fair to the people who are affected today or in the past. Vice versa is true as well — the sentimentalist might be misunderstood by the economist.

Or consider social media. Twitter’s culture is different from Facebook’s or LinkedIn’s. Each site has its own messages and alerts, but also norms and values. It takes time to get used to the different perspectives, and those who don’t sometimes find themselves ostracized for saying what others perceive as the “wrong” things.

Learning a new language takes an investment — one that doesn’t always pay off right away or sometimes even at all. But if we don’t take risks, we forgo the possibility of deep cultural enrichment and possibly financial gains as well. I’ll bet the early adopters of cryptocurrency are glad they overcame the steep learning curve and got in when they did.

We won’t solve all our problems through learning languages other than our own. But the experience will deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us, including those we disagree with. Most importantly, it’s a good start.

James Broughel is a senior research fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

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Just 16 percent satisfied with way things are going in US: Gallup

Only 16 percent of adults are satisfied with the direction of the country as inflation remains near its highest point in decades and supply chain issues linger, according to a Gallup poll released Tuesday. 

The level of dissatisfaction marks a 6-point drop from Gallup polling last month and is the lowest mark since January 2021, right after the Capitol insurrection. A 14-point decline in Democrats’ satisfaction from April is the biggest contributor to the overall decrease, as Republicans’ and independents’ views remained more consistent. 

President Biden’s approval rating stayed the same as last month at 41 percent, while 54 percent of U.S. adults disapprove of his job performance. His approval rating has stayed between 40 and 43 percent since last August, and he has not had an approval rating above 50 percent since last June, according to Gallup’s polling. 

Biden’s approval rating remained above 50 percent before it dropped below six months into his term.

Congressional approving rating dropped to 18 percent, down three percentage points from last month and tying the lowest rating of this session of Congress. 

Democrats have struggled to advance key pieces of their agenda, particularly in a 50-50 Senate. The party is set to blow through the soft Memorial Day deadline for reaching a deal with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on a slimmed-down budget reconciliation bill to raise taxes, fight climate change and lower the cost of prescription drugs.  

A Gallup analyst concluded that the public’s grim outlook on the direction of the country makes Democratic control of Congress “extremely vulnerable” ahead of the November midterm elections.

Biden’s approval rating is “particularly weak” among independents and not close to the level an incumbent president usually needs to avoid major losses in congressional elections, the analysis adds.

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Aerosmith cancels some shows after Steven Tyler enters treatment

Aerosmith announced on Tuesday the band would be canceling some of its upcoming shows after lead singer Steve Tyler entered a treatment program.

“As many of you know, our beloved brother Steven has worked on his sobriety for many years. After foot surgery to prepare for the stage and the necessity of pain management during the process, he has recently relapsed and voluntarily entered a treatment program to concentrate on his health and recovery,” the band wrote on Instagram.

“We are truly sorry to inform our fans and friends that we must cancel our first set of Las Vegas Residency dates this June and July while he focuses on his well-being,” the band added. “We will continue our 2022 dates starting in September, and we’ll let you know any further updates as soon as we can.”

Tyler has been candid about his experience with drugs and seeking treatment in the past, including during an interview with Haute Living in 2019.

“Aerosmith made it from ’72 to ’79 not necessarily stoned, but beautiful… then we all became very f—ed up,” Tyler told the magazine. “There were no such things as rehabs; there were mental institutions. I went away in ’84 and ’86, and I didn’t really get it. The early ’80s were terrible, and drugs took us down. I was the first one to get treatment.”

“There was a moment in ’88 where management and the band pulled an intervention on me. They thought, ‘Get the lead singer sober, and all our problems would be over.’ So, I got sober, and you know it took me many years to get over the anger of them sending me to rehab while they went on vacation. But today because of that moment… I am grateful and owe a thanks to them for my sobriety,” he added.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee announced in 2019 that he was opening up a home for neglected and abused girls in Memphis, Tenn., called Janie’s House. He opened up his first Janie’s House in Atlanta in 2017.

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Activists protest Amazon’s cloud conference over company’s work with police, immigration agencies

A group of activists staged a protest at Amazon Web Services’s (AWS) summit Tuesday in an attempt to bring attention to the company’s work with immigration agencies and police departments.

The collection of roughly a dozen protesters from MediaJustice, the Muslim Counterpublics Lab and For Us Not Amazon gathered in front of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., during the event’s keynote speech.

The organizations are hoping to bring attention to the ways they say technologies provided by AWS, Amazon’s cloud service provider and one of the main sources of the company’s revenue, are being used to surveil and target Black and brown communities. 

“These summits are just a part of the PR strategy to sanitize Amazon’s role as facilitators in state violence,” said Myaisha Hayes, campaign strategies director at Media Justice, a nonprofit that focuses on equity in technology and media.

“While attendees will spend three days learning all about the power and capabilities of AWS, I doubt they’ll hear about the people who have been displaced, arrested, and even deported because of Amazon’s technology,” she told The Hill.

A handful of the protesters attempted to enter the event to make their voices heard during the speech. Despite registering for the event, Hayes and Dr. Maha Hilal and Kris Garrity of the Muslim Counterpublics Lab had their credentials revoked and were asked by Amazon staff and building security to leave before the keynote kicked off.

In a video of the incident shared with The Hill, Hilal asks an Amazon employee why they are being removed and whether he plans to ask other Black or Muslim women at the event to leave.

“I don’t see any color,” the Amazon employee, who identified himself as John, replied.

One activist, Arlin Telles from For Us Not Amazon, was not initially removed and did briefly disrupt the keynote speech by Max Peterson, AWS’s vice president of worldwide public sector work, before being escorted out of the building by security. Telles told The Hill she is now banned from all future AWS events.

An Amazon spokesperson declined to comment on the record about the protest or removal of the activists.

The activists had intended to deliver a letter to AWS calling out the company’s agreement to host the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) biometric database once it goes live.

The letter cosigned by 38 civil society organizations calls on Amazon to end its agreement to host HART, which they call an “invasive biometrics database that will supercharge surveillance and deportation, risking human rights violations.”

A recent report by the immigrants rights groups Mijente, Just Futures Law and the Immigrant Defense Project, estimates that HART will include facial scans, fingerprints, voice prints and other biometric information for over 270 million people.

The database, the groups argue, will facilitate the targeting and deportation of thousands of individuals.

Protesters hope to educate the public about the links between Amazon and immigration enforcement, something which the average American is unlikely to associate with the company that they best know for delivering their packages quickly.

“All this complicity that Amazon has in state violence is unseen,” Danny Cendejas, a field organizer at Media Justice, told The Hill.

The protesters were also critical of AWS’s work with domestic law enforcement.

The company placed a one a year moratorium on and then indefinitely paused police department access to its facial recognition technology after intense criticism shortly after the killing of George Floyd and subsequent protests.

AWS’s Rekognition software has been criticized, including by Amazon’s own employees, as being less accurate in identifying people of color. At least three Black men have been incorrectly arrested based on facial recognition matches in recent years, although Rekognition is not known to be involved in any of those cases.

At the same time that AWS stopped providing Rekognition to police, Amazon was expanding its partnerships with departments across the country for its Ring doorbells.

The camera enabled doorbells, which are operated on AWS networks, have been criticized for dramatically expanding the surveillance power of law enforcement without any checks. Ring has partnerships with over 1,800 departments, up from 770 at the beginning of 2020.

AWS tools have also been used by a company seeking to monitor and analyze inmate calls, which privacy groups say could amplify racial bias and leave prisoners at the whims of unreliable artificial intelligence technology.

“Next Monday will mark the two year anniversary of George Floyd’s death,” Hayes told The Hill. “And over that time, despite many pledges to value Black lives, Amazon’s actions have actually made Black people less safe.”

Protestors also called for AWS to terminate its work with several federal agencies that they say have degraded Muslims’ privacy and security by surveilling and targeting them.

“Obviously there is a lot of collusion (with) Amazon and hosting institutions and agencies like the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigations), DHS, ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) etc.,” Hilal said. “Amazon makes a choice to host these agencies and institutions in spite of the violence that they cause to Black and brown communities.”

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Hoyer’s Puerto Rico Status Act draft: One step forward, two steps back

Last week, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-N.Y.) announced the Puerto Rico Status Act discussion draft to much fanfare. The draft is a consensus reached between the sponsors of competing bills Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act HR 2070 and Puerto Rico Statehood Act HR 1522. Although praiseworthy in its attempt to reach some sort of middle ground, it does so by skewering the process with false — or at least, highly debatable — representations on Puerto Rico’s possible status options, specifically with regards to the continuity American citizenship under independence or free association.

The Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act is sponsored by Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-N.Y.). This bill aims of addressing the perennial status question by means of a Status Assembly invested with sovereign authority. The constitutional difficulties of this model were clearly shown during the House Natural Resources Committee hearing held in April 14 and June 16 of 2021.

The Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act was sponsored by Puerto Rico’s nonvoting Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González-Colón (R-P.R.)and Darren Soto (D-N.Y.). This bill aimed at a up or down vote on statehood, following the 2020 territorial plebiscite in which statehood obtained a 52.5 percent majority. Detractors of this bill argued, among other issues, that it unjustifiably excluded other status alternatives.

The last 10 months have been an exercise in legislative arm wrestling, each faction trying to gain the upper hand. Clearly, neither of the factions has had the political muscle to have their way. In the meantime, House Democrats have been whittling away the political advantage they had at some point in the many issues at the beginning of the 117th Congress. The Puerto Rico status issue is certainly not one of its pressing concerns.        

In the face of the 2022 midterm elections, and the widely held belief that Democrats will most probably lose the House, the question of Puerto Rico’s political status has become — once again — and indifferent afterthought in the larger scheme of political ambitions.

The discussion draft bill is fundamentally political window dressing. It is clear that any bill, be it HR 1522 or HR 2070 or this recently announced draft, will be hard pressed at passing the House Resource Committee, much less a vote in the full House.

On the Senate side, the GOP opposition to moving on the Puerto Rico status question — with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) in evident agreement — make any movement on the issue in the House irrelevant.

All of which raises the question: What is the interest in presenting a draft of a bill that has little, if no opportunity, of achieving its purpose?

To be clear, Hoyer’s audience is not Congress but the Puerto Rican and Hispanic electorate, both in the island and in the mainland. In the mainland, the bill shows Florida and New York constituents, among others, that the question Puerto Rico’s status is being addressed. It remains to been seen if this will translate into electoral approval for Democrats in the midterm elections.

Perhaps more importantly, for the island’s audience, the draft bill appears to be an attempt by Velazquez and others to short-circuit the growing support for statehood.

First, the draft bill jettisons the Status Assembly and the territorial alternative. This has already provoked the opposition of the institutional territorial party Popular Democratic Party (PPD), which has raised the objection of electoral disenfranchisement. Certain members of the unionist wing of the PPD are suggesting that the territorial alternative be explicitly included as an alternative. This would be a first. In fact, this proposal would be in line with the request made by the Department of Justice in its comments to HR 2070 and HR 1522 as a precondition of its endorsement.  

Second, in their drive to achieve statehood for Puerto Rico, many pro-statehood politicians have fallen for the unfortunate characterization of the territorial relationship as “colonial” and argue incessantly for its decolonization. The have failed to understand that the language of decolonization and international law leads to independence — not statehood. This failure becomes apparent in this discussion draft bill confronted by the question of American citizenship. Talk about cutting one’s nose to spite one’s face.

Perhaps the single most troublesome aspect of the discussion draft is the inclusion of American citizenship under the alternative of independence, in any of its forms. It is a truism that American citizenship is the third rail of Puerto Rican politics. Such is its gravitational force that the pro-independence factions have had to acknowledge it if they want to be successful in their aspirations. Hence its inclusion in the discussion draft.

Read with objective detachment, as written, the discussion draft invites the political possibility of an independent-sovereign Puerto Rico populated by American citizens, not subject the United States Constitution or its jurisdiction. The fact that many in Puerto Rico and in Congress think that this is a possibility shows the extent of their political delusions. Citizenship, as is well known, follows sovereignty. The matter of American citizenship under independence in any of its forms needs to be addressed truthfully and clearly, not by wishful thinking and false representations. Hoyer’s discussion draft fails in this most important aspect.    

The intent of this proposal is not, in my estimation, to achieve legislation advancing Puerto Rico’s political status issue. This has evidently already been given up in this Congress. Rather, its political purpose is to create a political template for future plebiscites in which American citizenship is assumed by the island electorate to be included in any proposal, to the detriment of statehood.

Both Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi and González-Colón, the island’s resident commissioner in Congress, who appear to be locked in a publicity competition for who is more committed to statehood for Puerto Rico, would do well to review their positions on this matter. On the ultimate matter of statehood for Puerto Rico, their endorsement to this stillborn proposal constitutes one step forward and two steps backward.

Andrés L. Córdova is a law professor at Inter American University of Puerto Rico, where he teaches contracts and property courses. He is also an occasional columnist on legal and political issues at the Spanish daily El Vocero de Puerto Rico.

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Panel recommends new names for military bases named for Confederates

The commission tasked with recommending new titles for nine Army bases named after Confederate generals on Tuesday put forward their suggestions, including renaming Fort Hood, Texas after the first Latino four-star general.  

The congressional Naming Commission “sought to find names that would be inspirational to the Soldiers and civilians who serve on our Army posts, and to the communities who support them,” the group’s chair, retired Navy Adm. Michelle Howard, said in a statement. 

Eight of the nine bases would be renamed for those with ties to the Army’s nearly 250-year history, while one — Fort Bragg, N.C. — would be changed to Fort Liberty. 

“We realized that we had more heroes than we did bases to name,” Howard said. “And we were overwhelmed with the greatness of the American Soldier — from those who gave their entire adult lives to the Army, to those who sacrificed themselves in valorous acts. We were reminded that courage has no boundaries by man-made categories of race, color, gender, religion, or creed.”  

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday said he is “pleased to see the Naming Commission’s progress,” and thanked members “for their important, collaborative work with base commanders, local community leaders, Soldiers, and military families,” according to a statement.  

The potential name changes, first reported by ABC News, come after legislation passed by Congress last year dictated the renaming of Army installations named for Confederate leaders by 2023. 

The recommended names do not go into effect until approved by Congress and Austin. 

The other changes include renaming Fort Hood after Richard Cavazos; renaming Fort Gordon, Ga., after Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Army general during World War II who later became the 34th U.S. president; and changing the name of Fort Benning, Ga., to honor Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and his wife Julia Moore, a celebrated military family. 

The commission also recommended changing Fort Pickett, Va, to honor Van Barfoot — a Medal of Honor recipient of Native American descent who fought in World War II — and altering Fort Rucker, Ala., to pay tribute to Michael Novosel, another Medal of Honor recipient who was a pilot during World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam War. 

Fort Lee, Va., would take its name from two individuals: Arthur Gregg, a former three-star general who served as logistics director for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Charity Adams, the first Black woman to be an officer in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. 

Fort A.P. Hill, Va., would be renamed after Mary Walker, the first female surgeon in Army history who received the Medal of Honor for her service during the Civil War. 

Fort Polk, La., meanwhile would be renamed after William Henry Johnson, a Black soldier whose heroic actions in World War I were not honored with the Medal of Honor until 2015. 

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.), applauded the suggestions, which he said represent “a significant milestone for the Commission and follows a year’s worth of visits, community engagement, and historical research.” 

“This list is but a first step in addressing Confederate symbolism in the U.S. military, a process that is more than symbolic. This process has created a new opportunity to foster a more inclusive environment for our service members by remembering and acknowledging our country’s history while honoring the valor and sacrifice of our service members and their families,” Smith said in a statement. 

In addition to recommending the military installation name changes, the Naming Commission is also reviewing more than 750 Defense Department items — including street, school and building names, symbols, displays, monuments or paraphernalia — to determine whether they commemorate the Confederacy. 

Cost estimates for the proposed renaming or removing of items will be included in the commission’s final recommendations to Congress, which are due to the House and Senate Armed Services committees by Oct. 1. 

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Multiple students in ER after Texas school shooting

Multiple students were hospitalized after a shooting at an elementary school in Texas on Tuesday, according to a local hospital.

Uvalde Memorial Hospital said in a Facebook post that staff were “caring for several students in the ER” following the shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, about 85 miles west of San Antonio.

The status of those hospitalized has not been released. The hospital said it will “be in constant communication with the family members” of the injured students. 

The school went into lockdown earlier Tuesday, saying there was an active shooter on the premises. Officials said that a suspect is in custody, though they have not released additional information.

Parents were allowed to pick up their children from a reunification center.

The Hill has reached out to Uvalde Police Department for further comment.

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Author Margaret Atwood developed an unburnable ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ book

One author is making her book unburnable, in a move to defy schools and communities across the country that are banning or challenging books and pulling them off shelves. 

Margaret Atwood, author of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” has developed an unburnable edition of her book, printed bound using fire-proof materials. Atwood has experienced her work being targeted with bans and challenges for decades, with “The Handmaid’s Tale” listed as one of the most frequently challenged books since 1990 by the American Library Association. 

“The Handmaid’s Tale” is a novel that takes place in a dystopian United States where women are stripped of nearly all their rights and are relegated to simply being wives and mothers. It was adapted into a TV show in 2017. 

“It is designed to protect this vital story and stand as a powerful symbol against censorship,” said Penguin Random House, Atwood’s publisher, in a statement.  

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The book features a black Cinefoil dust jacket, white heat shield foil pages, section sewn with nickel wire, a phenolic hard cover, stainless steel head and tail bands and a Kapton high temperature adhesive. 

The rare edition can handle temperatures up to 2,600 degrees Fahrenheit. 

Penguin Random House also released a video explaining the unburnable edition of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” featuring Atwood herself pointing a flamethrower at her novel, which remained fully intact.  

“Because powerful words can never be extinguished,” said the video. 

The unburnable edition of Atwood’s book will be up for auction by Sotheby’s New York now until June 7, with all proceeds going to PEN America, an advocacy group that pushes for free expression. The auction house estimates the book to bring in anywhere between $50,000 to $100,000.  

PEN America has been tracking book bans in public schools across the country for decades and found that from July 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022, a total of 1,586 instances of individual books being banned. The group’s count included removal of books from school libraries, prohibitions in classrooms, or both as well as books banned from circulation during investigations after challenges were brought from parents, educators, school boards or lawmakers. 

PEN found that 41 percent of all bans it counted were tied to directives from state officials or elected lawmakers to investigate or remove books in schools. “This is an unprecedented shift in PEN America’s long history of responding to book bans, from the more typical pattern in which demands for book removals are initiated by local community members.” 

In January, a school board meeting erupted into chaos after a vote to name a district member who had previously called for the burning of “sexually explicit” books in school libraries as its new chair.  

Before that in February, a Tennessee pastor held a book burning event, telling his parishioners to, “stop allowing demonic influences into your home.” Footage from the event posted to Facebook showed churchgoers throwing books and other items into a bonfire set ablaze in the church’s parking lot.  

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