Posted on 20 November 2019. Tags: Bain Capital, Deval Patrick, Financial Transaction Tax, ITEP, Jessica Schieder, Jim Baker, Private Equity, Tobin Tax, Toys R Us
Deval Patrick has become very, very rich since leaving the post of Massachusetts governor. That’s what happens when you become a managing director of Bain Capital, one of the behemoths in the private equity industry. Patrick became rich working for a company—being a managing director of a company—that has screwed thousands of workers, especially 30,000 […]
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Posted in Audio, Economy, Podcast, Politics
Posted on 05 June 2019. Tags: AFL-CIO, California, Child Tax Credit, Democrats, EITC, Elizabeth Warren, ITEP, Jessica Schieder, Taxes, Tefere Gebre
I just returned from the great city of San Francisco which hosted the state Democratic Party Convention. And in my audio bag are most of the speeches of the Democratic presidential candidates who gave their pitches to the delegates—California, with a much earlier primary than usual, will potentially have a decisive say about who will […]
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Posted in Audio, Economy, Labor, Podcast, Politics, Workers