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Pay the People!
Pay the People!
John Driscoll
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From an unlikely source, a compelling argument that when workers are paid fairly, everyone, including businesses, benefits
"I'm not any more altruistic than the next guy, I'm just greedy for a different kind of country than most other rich people. I want to be a rich man in a rich country." —Morris Pearl, board chair of the Patriotic Millionaires and former BlackRock executive
Seventy percent of the U.S. economy is based on consumer demand, but almost 40 percent of Americans make less than the cost of living. Nearly all the economic gains made in the last several decades have gone to the top 1 percent and Wall Street, while working families whose spending habits drive the economy have fallen further behind, and our economy has suffered as a result.
In Pay the People!, two members of the top 1 percent—John Driscoll, former healthcare CEO and current Walgreens executive, and Morris Pearl, a former BlackRock executive and...
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