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Professor, Former US Secretary of Labor
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Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies, was Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration. Time Magazine named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the twentieth ...more

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How America Can Lower Gas Prices Like Other Countries
The windfall tax is exactly what we need to stop the gush of money flowing from consumers to Big Oil and its investors.
How Amazon, Starbucks, And Other Companies Fight Unions
You as a worker have a legal right to join a union, but there are many ways big corporations are skirting the law to stop you from getting your fair share. You could be working for a union-buster and not even know it.
4 Myths About Raising The Minimum Wage
The federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour has not been raised since 2009. That’s the longest period without an increase since the minimum wage was enacted, meaning today’s minimum wage is actually worth far less than it was in 2009.
How Joe Biden Can Help Workers Without Congress
Did you know Joe Biden can help American workers right now, even without Congress? He can sign three executive orders, affecting a fifth of the economy and transforming millions of workers’ lives.
How Corporations Are Using Inflation To Take Your Money
The real problem is not inflation. The real problem is the increase in corporate power and the decline in worker power over the past 40 years.
How We Stand Up To Putin And Stop Climate Catastrophe
How do we stand up to Putin and avert a climate catastrophe at the same time? By quitting our addiction to fossil fuels. Here’s how can we get there.
Amazon Workers’ Astounding Win, And How Corporate America Is Trying To Take Back Power
On Friday, Amazon – America’s wealthiest, most powerful, and fiercest anti-union corporation, with the second-largest workforce in the nation (Walmart being the largest), lost out to a group of warehouse workers in New York who voted to form a union.
The Hidden Link Between Corporate Greed And Inflation
Inflation. Everyone’s talking about it, but everyone's ignoring one of its biggest causes: corporate concentration.
The Fed Is About To Shaft American Workers – For No Good Reason
The last thing average working people need is for the Fed to raise interest rates and slow the economy further. The problem most people face isn’t inflation. It’s a lack of good jobs.
Can Congress Really Use Insider Information To Trade Stocks?
Members of Congress use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed to be working for you. Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption.
As Job Gains Slow, The Fed And Congress Apply The Wrong Medicine
The Fed is about to prescribe the wrong medicine. It’s going to raise interest rates to slow the economy – even though millions of former workers have yet to return to the job market and even though job growth is slowing sharply.
Psst: You Want To Know What’s Really Driving Inflation? (Not What The Fed Thinks It Is)
“Inflation is more persistent and higher, and that the risk of it remaining higher for longer has grown,” Jerome Powell explained. Translated: The Fed are about to slow the economy — even though we’re still 4 million jobs short of where we were.
How Unaccountable Institutions Are Shaping Your Life
Three centers of power increasingly dominate our lives, but are less and less accountable: The Supreme Court, the Federal Reserve, and Big Tech.
What’s Really Driving Inflation? Corporate Power
The biggest culprit for rising prices that’s not being talked about is the increasing economic concentration of the American economy in the hands of a relative few giant big corporations with the power to raise prices.
How Wealth Inequality Spiraled Out Of Control
The wealth gap between the richest Americans and everyone else is staggering.
The Real Reason The Economy Might Collapse
Skyrocketing wealth inequality is weakening our economy. Seventy percent of the US economy depends on consumer spending. So American consumers need to spend enough money to buy most of the goods and services Americans are capable of producing.
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