Why aren’t insurance companies aggressively fighting climate change, and minimizing catastrophes? Look at their balance sheets.
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Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Entrepreneurship, Amazon Style
Creating outside companies for deliveries and freight follows a franchising model that leads to lower wages and captive “independent” business.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Great Supply Shock We Brought Upon Ourselves
A half-century of neglecting fragilities in production and a confluence of disruptions have brought us to this point.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Paid Leave Advocates Won’t Push Back on Payouts to Private Insurance
House proposal would fork over paid leave benefits to private insurers.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Congress’s Latest Giveaway to Weapons Makers
While 7.5 million workers lose unemployment, members of Congress want to bail out the military industry.
Posted inWorking in America
Timeline: How Corporate America Has Helped Decimate Unions
The declining bargaining power of unions contributes to the crisis of extreme income inequality in the United States.
Posted inEconomic Policy
How Ron Wyden Wants to Weaken Taxes on Multinationals
His proposal keeps Trump loopholes and bears the fingerprints of corporate lobbyists.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Corporate Tax Dodging Won’t Go Away Until We Fix Our Tax Code
New research shows that corporations pay no or negative tax even after being profitable for a number of years.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Funding From Amazon Sunders a Worker-Consumer Alliance
Union leaders quit the board of the National Consumers League in protest.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Infrastructure Summer: Bipartisan Bill Boosts Corporate Giants
In broadband and other areas, the corporate dominance that has been an impediment to progress emerges unscathed.
