Tag: Corporate America
How about a general strike against Dollar General?
The brutal Dollar General approach to managing retail has paid off handsomely—for Dollar General investors and execs.
Median pay of top US CEOs jumped to record $22.3 million...
Analysis has shown companies have used inflation as an excuse to unnecessarily raise prices and have pocketed the increased profits.
‘Illegal corporate price-fixing’ is rampant in US economy: Report
"Oligopolies are not just a cause of inflation. They exacerbate social and economic inequality, and thus weaken democracy."
Imagine a world where CEOs get paid $3 million a year
Being a well-paid CEO means something very different today than it did fifty years ago.
This one thing would increase wages by $300 billion
Non-compete agreements block workers from seeing higher wages or better working conditions. And they enlarge corporate monopoly power by stifling competition.
Capitalism’s Conclusion, Part I: What the Ohio train derailment exposed
The recent derailment of trains in East Palestine isn’t just a once-in-a-generation environmental disaster, it's what will continue to happen when profit is put above public health.
The truth about corporate subsidies
Large American corporations shouldn’t need government subsidies to do what’s right for America.
The little secret about corporate profits
The power of big corporations to raise their prices higher than their costs are rising.
Before COB on the first workday of 2023, CEOs will make...
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.
The monsters of American capitalism
Three of its prime exemplars: Trump, Bankman-Fried's, and Musk!
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EPA finalizes repeal of power plant carbon standards as environmental groups sue
The sector accounts for nearly one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and the agency separately proposed ending its authority to regulate them.
Democratic attorneys general say Education Department is hiding 1,300 documents on its layoffs
A privilege log lists nearly 1,300 records the agency says are too sensitive to hand over.
7,000 Chicago hotel workers vote to authorize strike
A union survey found a third of members cannot cover rent or mortgage payments, and the last hotel strike in the city, in 2018, lasted about a month.
Vance-led task force moves to strip 760,000 people of ACA coverage
Advocates say the crackdown follows 8 million coverage losses already tied to Trump-era health cuts.
Federal judge blocks deportation of man shot by ICE during Austin delivery run
DHS and the man's attorney give conflicting accounts of the medical care he has received since.