Interpret improvements as you like. For me it’s any large scale reforms or legislative packages designed to improve the country for all or see to the material interests of the majority without overly benefiting the elite.
Any big consumer protection, environmental, infrastructure, or other legislation from Clinton onwards that materially improved the lives of all?
Obamacare and the medicaid expansion comes to my mind. It has obviously improved people’s lives but considering how broken the healthcare system remains, and that it was written by the insurance industry to undermine single-payer, it seems to me a mitigated win at best.
Gay marriage and marijuana legalisation but that was the courts and the states although i’m sure the federal government could’ve stood in the way had they chosen to.
I’ve only live here since the 2010s so that’s all I can think of.
Requiring nutritional information on food
That was an EU thing.
It was also cheaper for manufacturers to use the same design in both USA and Europe, which made it an easy implementation for the States.
Food companies actually fought the law
Yeah, companies always fight for themselves, and never the customers!
With that change they had to measure what they actually put into the products. That cost money, which is a great reason to discard people’s health.
?? Nutrition labels have been on food my entire life, and I’m almost 50. Has something about them changed in the last 30 years?
It wasn’t law until the mid 90’s. Ingredients have been around as long as I can remember but not nutritional information