While 7.5 million workers lose unemployment, members of Congress want to bail out the military industry.
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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.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Investigator: Sen. Carl Levin (1934–2021)
The anti-kleptocracy campaigns of the Michigan lawmaker were ahead of their time.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Corporate Lobbyists Seek ‘Grassroots’ Support for Forced Arbitration
Emails reveal a conservative tactic to promote forced arbitration in Arizona: offer $2,000 to sign a local newspaper op-ed.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Senators Want Juul Punished for Buying an Academic Journal
Sens. Warren and Blumenthal ask the FDA and FTC to review Juul’s sponsorship of an entire edition of the American Journal of Health Behavior.
Posted inLaw and Justice
How Do You Solve a Problem Like the Sacklers?
Judges have grown accustomed to issuing get-out-of-litigation cards to corporate looters in bankruptcy court.