Europe’s Austerity is a Warning to the United States
By GREGORY N. HEIRES With deep cutbacks in government spending looming and conservatives pushing for reduced expenditures on Social Security and Medicare, the United States need only look across the...
View ArticleU.S. Taxpayers Fund More Low-wage Jobs than McDonald’s and Wal-Mart
By GREGORY N. HEIRES The U.S. government underwrites more low-wage workers than Wal-Mart and McDonald’s employ together in the United States. Federal tax dollars fund nearly 2 million workers who earn...
View ArticleThe Wal-Mart Low-Wage Model Broke the U.S. Economy
By GREGORY N. HEIRES Wal-Mart’s nickname should be Inequality Inc. Consider this: • Six heirs of the company’s founder control more wealth than 41.5 percent of all American families combined—or 48.8...
View ArticleInequality Gone Wild
By GREGORY N. HEIRES We have a winner-take-all global economy, a malady that undermines democracy, distorts economic development and fuels inequality. Timed to coincide with the meeting of the global...
View ArticleCollege Football Players Win Right to Unionize
By GREGORY N. HEIRES Last week’s regional National Labor Relations Board ruling that college football plays are workers opens up the possibility for a wave of organizing in collegiate sports. The...
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