Tag: Corporate America
Will the Golden Age for corporate shareholders ever end?
Shareholders have assumed enormous influence over U.S. corporations over the last few decades. Despite their firm hold, shifts are underway that could alter the domestic corporate landscape.
Green New Deal XXIII: Fixing our broken food system means ending...
We need to rethink how we grow our food in a biodiversity-friendly way that mitigates rather than accelerates the climate breakdown.
A class analysis of the Trump-Biden rerun
Is the solution to move beyond the employer-employee organization of the workplace?
Is it inflation? Or is it ‘greedflation?’
Inflation is dropping, but prices aren’t coming down. So how can this be?
Unveiling the titans of carbon: How 57 companies drive the global...
The quest to curb emissions becomes not just a matter of individual or national effort but a pressing need for accountability at the corporate level.
Who’s to blame for out-of-control corporate power?
The public is waking up to the outsized power corporations wield over our economy and democracy. It’s about time.
Some new hope for a check on CEO compensation
A Delaware state court ruling has shaken up the pay world for corporate executives.
Your employer can now match your student loan repayments as 401(k)...
When someone makes a student loan payment, their employer can contribute that same amount of money to the employee’s retirement plan under Section 110 of a federal law known as the SECURE Act 2.0.
Sick of outrageously excessive CEO compensation?
America’s top health care execs would rather we not.
The 100 largest low-wage employers have spent $341 billion on stock...
And yet top executives seem to have little trouble finding resources for enriching themselves and wealthy shareholders.
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The $5.6 billion opening salvo: inside the staggering cost of Trump’s war on Iran
New reporting reveals that the United States burned through billions in munitions within days of launching its assault on Iran, highlighting the scale of the military campaign and its mounting financial and humanitarian toll.
Senate Democrats demand investigation into Iran school bombing as Fetterman stands apart
Nearly the entire Democratic caucus calls for a probe into a deadly strike on a girls’ school in Minab while one senator backs the military operation.
How 300 billionaires poured $3 billion into the 2024 elections
A tiny fraction of donors supplied nearly one-fifth of all federal campaign spending as billionaire influence surged to unprecedented levels.
Americans skipping meals and delaying life decisions as healthcare costs strain households nationwide
New Gallup surveys show tens of millions of Americans cutting back on food, utilities, and daily necessities to pay medical bills while healthcare affordability worsens.
The war on Iran—and Washington’s missing exit strategy
That means inflicting real costs: U.S. casualties, political backlash at home, strained relations with allies, global economic disruption and a further erosion of Washington’s standing in the world.