Gross economic inequality and poor working conditions are fomenting a nationwide co-op movement. Its next target is Big Tech.
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⏩ Jonathan Guyer on The Majority Report Talks Big Tech to Defense Connection
Watch Prospect Managing Editor Jonathan Guyer discuss the consultant-to-Biden-administration pipeline.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Thinker, Tanker, Scholar, Consultant
Every former policymaker in Washington is an academic, a researcher, and an adviser to big business.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Corporate America’s Empty Threats
Uber, Amazon, and others continually vow to leave any place where public-interest regulation might limit their profits. Don’t buy it.
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What Will Be Revealed in Jake Sullivan’s Financial Disclosures?
Biden’s ‘shadow lobbying’ ban isn’t enough to ensure transparency.
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Business as Usual With Saudi Arabia Is Good for Business
Biden missed an opportunity to hold MBS truly accountable.
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A Quiet Return to Government for an Obama-Era Labor Official
Seth Harris, who co-authored an early blueprint of what Uber and Lyft would adopt in California’s Prop 22, is back in the White House in a labor policy position.
Posted inWorking in America
Prop 22 Is Here, and It’s Already Worse Than Expected
Not only are gig companies gouging workers and consumers, but traditional firms are benefiting from the substandard labor regime as well.
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Policy Matters
Divorced from candidates and to a degree from partisanship, policies that make a tangible difference in people’s lives once again performed well at the ballot.
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Prop 22 Is a Dress Rehearsal for This Biden Cabinet Hopeful’s Confirmation Battle
Uber, DoorDash, and Lyft want to neutralize workers’ rights for gig economy workers. They got the idea from Obama’s former acting secretary of labor, Seth Harris.
