'People are ready for a progressive, pro-democracy, pro-worker agenda to take on corporate control. We just need leaders to have the courage to enact it.' fightmonopolies
"the unnecessary gap between skyrocketing corporate profits and working people's poverty wages."
"Small businesses are decimated by monopolies, workers are crushed by corporate bosses, and families are fed up with Wall Street taking home record profits while they struggle—but we've seen that it doesn't have to be this way.
To stop corporations from buying back their own shares instead of using profits to increase production and worker compensation, Democrats could pass the Reward Work Act, which includes a provision rescinding a 1982 rule that allowed stock buybacks—which had previously been treated as illegal market manipulation.
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