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STATEMENT: Roosevelt Institute Policy Counsel Responds to Bill Introduced by Sen. Elizabeth Warren to Amplify Worker Voice
Wednesday, 15 August 2018
MEDIA ADVISORY: August 15, 2018 CONTACT: Kendra Bozarth, kbozarth@rooseveltinstitute.org STATEMENT: Roosevelt Institute Policy Counsel Responds to Bill Introduced by Sen. Elizabeth Warren to Amplify Worker Voice New York, NY—Today, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) introduced legislation that would require large corporations to consider the interests of employees and other stakeholders in their decision-making. The Accountable Capitalism Act
- Published in Press Release
Why Workers On Corporate Boards Just Makes Sense
Tuesday, 14 August 2018
Editor’s Note: On August 15, 2018, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) introduced the Accountable Capitalism Act, legislation that would require corporations to consider the interests of all stakeholders within the firm—not only shareholders—in company decisions. Corporations are made up of a wide range of stakeholders: workers, managers, executives, and shareholders. Currently, only executives and shareholders have the
- Published in Blog, Economic Inclusion, Economy & Growth, Work and Labor
Companies Can Afford to Pay Workers More
Tuesday, 07 August 2018
Why This Matters is a series from Roosevelt staff connecting our individual work—from papers to reports and everything in between—to our broader vision of creating a better, more equitable economic and political system. This series will give readers the top takeaways from our latest writing and thinking, with a focus on why they matter as we
- Published in Blog, Economic Inclusion, Economy & Growth, Work and Labor
New Report Takes Aim at Myths About Shareholders, Describes Harm Their Power Causes
Tuesday, 19 June 2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JUNE 19 2018 CONTACT: Alexander Tucciarone, atucciarone@rooseveltinstitute.org, 516-263-9775 NEW REPORT TAKES AIM AT MYTHS ABOUT SHAREHOLDERS, DESCRIBES HARM THEIR POWER CAUSES Roosevelt Institute Issue Expert Outlines Ways Our Era of Shareholder-First Economics Is Bad for Companies, the Broader Economy NEW YORK, NY – In a new report, the Roosevelt Institute
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What Americans’ Fear of Automation Reveals About Our Broken Economy
Wednesday, 13 June 2018
Why This Matters is a series from Roosevelt staff connecting our individual work—from papers to reports and everything in between—to our broader vision of creating a better, more equitable economic and political system. This series will give readers the top takeaways from our latest writing and thinking, with a focus on why they matter as we
- Published in Blog, Economic Inclusion, Economy & Growth, homepage-slider, Work and Labor
STATEMENT: Roosevelt Institute Senior Economist Applauds ‘The Worker Dividend Act’ Introduced by Senator Cory A. Booker
Wednesday, 07 March 2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 6, 2018 CONTACT: Alexander Tucciarone, atucciarone@rooseveltinstitute.org, 516-263-9775 STATEMENT: Roosevelt Institute Senior Economist Applauds ‘The Worker Dividend Act’ Introduced by Senator Cory A. Booker Measure would require companies to provide a commensurate benefit for employees when CEOs, shareholders benefit from stock buybacks NEW YORK, NY — Earlier today, Senator Cory
- Published in Press Release
The ‘Tax Cuts for Shareholders’ Act
Tuesday, 20 February 2018
In the six weeks since the passage of the GOP tax plan, officially known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, businesses have been lauded for announcements of wages and bonuses. Yet it’s corporate stock buybacks—the practice of companies spending their cash on buying back their own shares in order to raise share prices overall—that
- Published in Blog, Economy & Growth, Finance & Wealth, homepage-slider
The Trump Economy: Not What It May Seem
Wednesday, 31 January 2018
During last night’s State of the Union address, President Trump heralded a set of economic indicators—including the unemployment rate—to suggest that his policies are resulting in an improving economic landscape for working Americans. Unfortunately, the narrative Trump wove obscures the reality of our current economy for most Americans: jobs remain unstable and unavailable for many,
- Published in Blog, homepage-slider, News, Politics
Fighting Short-Termism: The Untapped Power of University Endowments
Thursday, 25 January 2018
In the last few years, a wave of student divestment campaigns has swept across American colleges and universities as a way to combat climate change and, more recently, Puerto Rico’s debt crisis. These students should exert similar pressure on their universities’ endowments to fight against the toxic, shortsighted forces of next-quarter capitalism—a growing trend in
- Published in Blog, Education, Energy & Environment, Finance & Wealth, homepage-slider
Corporate Financialization and Its Impact on American Workers
Wednesday, 17 January 2018
Why This Matters is a series from Roosevelt staff connecting our individual work—from papers to reports and everything in between—to our broader vision of creating a better, more equitable economic and political system. This series will give readers the top takeaways from our latest writing and thinking, with a focus on why they matter as we
- Published in Blog, Economic Inclusion, Economy & Growth
