Tag: Corporate America

In less than seven hours on the first workday of the New Year, a typical CEO will have made as much as the average U.S. worker will make all year.

Three of its prime exemplars: Trump, Bankman-Fried's, and Musk!

This is an example of how big money can interact with the decline in local journalism to spread false or misleading information, including about the climate crisis and appropriate solutions.

Powell’s memo argued that the American economic system was “under broad attack” from consumer, labor, and environmental groups.

"Instead of raising interest rates and slowing the economy toward a recession, Congress and Biden should be taking aim at corporate price gouging."

"Corporations have price gouged consumers for extra profits—and gotten away with it—for too long."

"No government—not the federal government, not the state government, and not the city government—should be handing out corporate welfare to union busters and labor law violators."

"But we also urgently need every business, investor, city, state and region to walk the talk on their net-zero promises.”

Don’t believe the optimistic hype about wages “naturally” rising. About one-third of American workers are shockingly underpaid as a result of the federal government’s continued refusal to raise the minimum wage.

This robotic automation of white-collar jobs is being imposed so suddenly, widely, and stealthily that losses will crush any gains.