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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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.