Sam Pizzigati
LATEST ARTICLES BY Sam Pizzigati
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Labor
Corporate wage theft is on the rise
July 2, 2018Grand Theft Paycheck, a landmark new study from Good Jobs First and the Jobs with Justice Education Fund, examines over 1,200 lawsuits against wage theft that groups of workers have won since 2000. Employers in these...
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U.S.
Trump calls it tax reform, we call it an outrage
October 30, 2017The Trump tax plan makes the U.S. tax code even more millionaire-friendly than the current code.
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Opinion
CEO payouts soar, but what new products are they making?
June 28, 2017Making breakthroughs for consumers is hard, companies have found. But making fortunes for CEOs is easy.
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Opinion
The corporate choice—create real value or grand fortunes
June 22, 2017If downsizings and mergers don’t do the trick, CEOs can always just slash worker pensions and/or cut budgets for R&D and put the resulting “savings” into dividends and “buybacks,” two slick corporate maneuvers that jack up...
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Labor
The world’s greediest CEO: Hunter Harrison
April 20, 2017Harrison fired 34 percent of his workers.
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Labor
Unions decline, construction worker deaths soar
February 15, 2017Of the 31 New York construction workers killed in the last two years, 29 were working non-union jobs
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Opinion
Trump’s billionaires overlook $100 million here and there
February 2, 2017Trump’s pick for National Economic Council got bonus 4,000 times more than most American’s lifetime earnings.
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Opinion
Stopping economic ups and downs: here’s how
November 2, 2016Want thrills in your life? Go ride a roller coaster. Want some economic security? Help make us more equal.
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