Bernie Sanders: Verizon is the poster child for corporate greed
Hours after he had joined the picket line alongside Verizon workers, Senator Sanders was speaking to thousands of supporters in...
Hours after he had joined the picket line alongside Verizon workers, Senator Sanders was speaking to thousands of supporters in...
David Pakman gives an examination into how Walmart creates customers by underpaying employees, and leeches off of government welfare programs…...
Bernie Sanders is making Big Business shudder by using his platform as a presidential candidate to expose the top 10...
Sanders has proposed a detailed plan for addressing the country’s infrastructure needs, with an investment of $1 trillion. His plan...
About five years ago, one of the nation’s largest corporations, Tyson Foods, drew a bullseye on the official who oversaw...
Legal activists have long observed that there are two systems of law in America, one for the rich and one...
Just like that, Pfizer has decided it’s no longer American. It plans to link up with Ireland’s Allergan and move...
Drug giant Pfizer has merged with Irish company Allergan in order to benefit from tax evasion by relocating its headquarters...
In the autumn of 2012, when Walmart first heard about the possibility of a strike on Black Friday, executives mobilized...
The release Thursday of the 5,544-page text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership — a trade and investment agreement involving 12 countries...
It may be hard to accept, but a single company may have set back all of humanity. Had Exxon Mobil...
Four current and former Papa John’s Franchisees in New York City have agreed to a 500,000 dollar settlement to pay...
Members of Congress have asked for a federal investigation into whether ExxonMobil broke the law by intentionally obscuring the truth...
The 500 largest American corporations are hiding over $2 trillion in total profits in offshore tax havens in order to...
Climate-change denial has been compared to Big Tobacco’s 50-year-campaign to deny the dangers of cigarettes… Read more…
It surprises no-one, not even the racist and religious Republican base that the GOP exists first and foremost to advance...
Corporate welfare is often camouflaged in taxes that seem neutral on their face but give windfalls to big entrenched corporations...
ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson says oil and natural gas will still meet 60 percent of global energy demand in 2040...
After impounding the ballots for more than a year, federal officials last week tallied the votes in an acrimonious union...
Overseas tax evasion by American corporations has become a political hot button of late: It haunted Mitt Romney in 2012,...
Hotels are making a killing. Occupancy rates are exceeding pre-recession highs, and are expected to reach record levels in 2016....
The burgeoning battle between fast-food workers and their employers over low wages and benefits was ratcheted up a notch this...
For years, politicians wanting to block legislation on climate change have bolstered their arguments by pointing to the work of...
Forget lobbyists. When big corporations want to wield influence, they often put far more of their money into advertising and...
Thom Hartmann and Brendan Fischer discuss the war waged by ALEC, the Kochs, and the Waltons against the ability for...
For the past year, I’ve worked at a Burger King in Tampa, Florida, making $9 an hour. Taxes are taken...
In its latest listing of America’s wealthiest individuals, Forbes magazine for the first time ranks the members of the top...
You remember Fillmore. He’s the resident hippie of Radiator Springs in the Pixar blockbuster Cars. Much to the chagrin of...
More than 300 global corporations and financial institutions—including well-known names like Pepsi Co., FedEx, JP Morgan Chase, and Amazon—have created...
From the transcript at Moyers & Co., where Bernie Sanders makes his usual incisive points: BILL MOYERS: Well, that’s interesting....
The Independent U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders was in the city of Richmond, California on Thursday and said local...
Walmart is a wildly successful company. Its “corporate fact sheet” online boasts that for “the fiscal year ended January 31,...
You know those pesky statements of facts in deferred prosecution agreements? Where the corporation agrees that it did all those...
A ProPublica review of U.S. Department of Labor investigations shows that oil and gas workers – men and women often...
The amount of money employers had to pay because they were found guilty of wage theft is nearly three times...
The fast food industry is hoping that a day of lobbying on Capitol Hill can blunt the momentum that fast...
It’s the classic Catch-22 of the doomed job search: How do you get a job? You need experience. And how...
If you own a share of a company, how much information about the company are you entitled to? That is...
Reading companies’ annual reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission is a reliable cure for insomnia. Every so often, though,...
Reading companies’ annual reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission is a reliable cure for insomnia. Every so often, though,...
The Lac Mégantic oil train derailment that killed 47 people and nearly destroyed a small town was caused by a...
Meet Carlton, one of six service workers gathered at 71-year-old Austraberta Rodriguez’s home in Houston, Texas for breakfast with U.S....
Wal-Mart loves keeping track of data. For instance, the retail giant’s researchers know that before and after major storms, customers...
On the heels of news that natural gas production in the Marcellus Shale hit an all-time high in July, as...
As more and more American companies have used international mergers to move their profits out of U.S. tax jurisdiction, the...