Tag: corporations
Who’s raking off all your awful office meetings?
Understanding Corporate America’s structural greed.
Maine becomes first state to make corporations pay for recycling
“While we’re first in the U.S., we’re not going to be the last.”
How Uncle Sam can encourage corporations to be more patriotic
By using the power of the public purse, can we encourage federal contractors to be upstanding corporate citizens?
How corporations pumped up CEO pay while their low-wage workers suffered...
More than half of the country’s 100 largest low-wage employers rigged pay rules in 2020 to give CEOs 29 percent average raises while their frontline employees made 2 percent less.
While the rest of the U.S. was struggling, 55 corporations paid...
“We should continue to call on policymakers to address the gaping corporate tax loopholes that make this kind of tax avoidance possible.”
Sanders bill would hike taxes on big corporations that pay CEOs...
"We need to take dramatic steps to address wealth inequality in this country and discouraging massive executive payouts is a good place to start."
How corporations try to divide and exploit America’s workers
“These companies are not going to give you everything out of the goodness of their hearts. They start sweating when they see you standing together.”
Ballot measure added in San Francisco to increase taxes on corporations...
“We believe that big corporations that can afford to pay their executives million-dollar salaries every year can afford to pay their fair share in taxes to help us recover.”
Monopoly mayhem: Corporations win, workers lose
Big corporations have become so dominant that workers and consumers have fewer options and have to accept the wages and prices these giant corporations offer.
Corporations don’t have to pay pollution fines during Covid-19
Not surprisingly, a number of companies that do not have to pay the fines they agreed to are ones with deep ties to the Trump administration.
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Exposure to synthetic chemicals in food poses health impacts, new study reports
Their conclusion: a need to transition to a safer, more sustainable food system.
The most valuable lesson Democrats could actually learn from Biden
Democrats can shake off old ways of thinking by standing on their visions for the future even in conservative areas by passing the baton to the next generation to ensure the work of creating a better society for everyone can continue.
When do the ‘primal, profit-driven forces of nature’—racked with buyer’s remorse—dethrone or defang MAGA...
If you credit mass buyers’ remorse by hoodwinked MAGA voters, that goes double for flabbergasted tycoons once open to disruption (and donor payoffs) but now bullied by the allegedly pro-business browbeater.
Food giants’ climate plans lack credibility, new report finds
The annual report, which analyzed the climate strategies of five of the world’s top 10 food and agriculture corporations, is the latest in a slew of reports that show how the largest food companies are failing to tackle their environmental impacts.
New Jersey’s movement against ICE detention is not going away
These actions, organized by a seasoned coalition of pro-immigrant rights groups in the state, have now been going for over a month.