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- The American Corporation Is in Crisis https://bostonreview.net/forum/lenore-palladino-american-corporation-crisis%E2%80%94lets-rethink-it 75 comments
- The Worst Long-Term Unemployment Crisis Since the Depression - Corporate profits have rebounded while over 4 million Americans have been without work for 6 months or longer. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/12/longterm-unemployment-recession-charts 348 comments politics
- Sanders, Omar Unveil Bill to End 'Absurd Corporate Handouts' to Fossil Fuel Industry | "Our resources should go to helping the American people get through this crisis—not providing giveaways to the very people responsible for polluting our water and lands." https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/15/sanders-omar-unveil-bill-end-absurd-corporate-handouts-fossil-fuel-industry 45 comments politics
- The American Corporation is in Crisis—Let's Rethink It | For decades, shareholder primacy has obscured the fact that employees should do well when businesses do well. As that foundation crumbles, thirteen thinkers debate new reforms that could transform the inequalities at the heart of our economy https://bostonreview.net/forum/lenore-palladino-american-corporation-crisis%E2%80%94lets-rethink-it 3 comments politics
- The manufactured crisis in Venezuela, the world’s largest oil reserve, is a textbook example of what happens with American corporate interests are at odds with foreign powers. Democracy is no match for corporatocracy. If you haven't read Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, now would be a good time. https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-real-reason-the-u-s-wants-to-overthrow-venezuela/ 19 comments politics
- Straggling in a Good Economy, and Now Struggling in a Crisis | The coronavirus pandemic has shown how close to the edge many Americans were living, with pay and benefits eroding even as corporate profits surged. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/business/economy/coronavirus-economy.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur 4 comments politics
- Straggling in a Good Economy, and Now Struggling in a Crisis | The coronavirus pandemic has shown how close to the edge many Americans were living, with pay and benefits eroding even as corporate profits surged. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/business/economy/coronavirus-economy.html 7 comments politics
- Congress finally learned something from the financial crisis. Most of the coronavirus aid is going to average Americans, not giant corporations. https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-aid-package-helps-workers-small-business-not-corporations-2020-4 3 comments politics
- The Trump Administration’s Contemptuous, Pro-Corporate Response to Coronavirus: The incompetence and greed of this administration could now literally cost many Americans their lives in a major public-health crisis. https://prospect.org/health/the-trump-administrations-contemptuous-pro-corporate-response-to-coronavirus/ 21 comments politics
- Private Prison Corporations Are Modern Day Slave Traders: The Corrections Corporation of America believes the economic crisis has created an opportunity to become landlord, as well as manager, of a chunk of the American prison gulag. http://www.alternet.org/story/155199/private_prison_corporations_are_modern_day_slave_traders/ 53 comments politics