Treating Workers Like They’re Disposable Is Bad Business
May 26, 2021 | Fast food depends on low wages and high turnover. That’s not just wrong, new research says — it’s lousy for business.
Articles by Sam Pizzigati
FDR Must Be Smiling
May 5, 2021 | Biden’s plan to create jobs and tax the rich is a good deal bolder than it looks at first glance.
Essential Workers Take the Risk, CEOs Take the Reward
January 27, 2021 | Walgreens employees got just 18 cents an hour in hazard pay while their CEO made $17 million.
Biden’s Tax Plan Would Make America More Equal
October 21, 2020 | High-end financial firms are warning their top 1 percent clients that their extraordinary tax privileges could soon end.
How Taxpayers Funded ‘Consulting Fees’ for Ivanka Trump
October 7, 2020 | The president reduced his tax bill by writing off large payments to his daughter. He calls it “smart” — tax lawyers call it criminal.
Killing Someone Is Not Like Missing a Golf Putt
September 9, 2020 | Trump’s vile equivalence of a golf putt to police violence says a lot about the bubble America’s super rich live in.
Elon Musk and the Billionaire War on Public Health
May 20, 2020 | The billionaire Tesla CEO made hundreds of millions more by illegally forcing his employees back to work in a pandemic.
Coronavirus and the ‘Shock Doctrine’
March 17, 2020 | Powerful interests used the Great Recession to hardwire more inequality into our system. This time, let’s do the opposite.