| Jun 14, 2022 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyCEOs at America’s biggest low-wage employers now take home, on average, 670 times what their typical workers make. But we don’t just get unfairness when a boss can grab more in a year than a worker could make in over six centuries. We get bungling and inefficient...
| Sep 18, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyMy entire working life has been dictated by offshoring. I’ve spent my career jumping from one factory closing to another. When President Trump was elected, he said: “Companies are not going to leave the United States anymore without consequences.” His promises ring...
| Sep 11, 2019 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIn 2015, Waheed Etimad immigrated with his wife and their children to the United States from Afghanistan, where he’d been a translator for the U.S. Army. Etimad began taking courses at Diablo Valley College, studying to become a computer engineer while driving full...
| Sep 26, 2018 | Economy / Business|Editors PicksOn the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to stop U.S. corporations from offshoring American jobs on “day one” of his presidency. Just after his election, President Trump claimed to be following through on this promise when he supposedly brokered a deal...
| Dec 2, 2015 | Rights / DemocracySince the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision paved the way for unlimited corporate spending on elections, shadowy political organizations that don’t disclose their donors have spent over $600 million on federal races. With the Koch brothers’ network alone...