Pay the People!: Why Fair Pay Is Good for Business and Great for America by Driscoll, John

Pay the People!: Why Fair Pay Is Good for Business and Great for America

From an unlikely source, a compelling argument that when workers are paid fairly, everyone, including businesses, benefits...
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Author: John Driscoll
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Pay the People!: Why Fair Pay Is Good for Business and Great for America by Driscoll, John

Pay the People!: Why Fair Pay Is Good for Business and Great for America

$38.24

Pay the People!: Why Fair Pay Is Good for Business and Great for America

$38.24
Author: John Driscoll
Format: Paperback
Language: English
From an unlikely source, a compelling argument that when workers are paid fairly, everyone, including businesses, benefits

Seventy percent of the U.S. economy is based on consumer demand, but almost forty 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, 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 chair of the board of the Patriotic Millionaires--pin the blame squarely on short-term corporate greed and policies of both government and employers that impose austerity on some of the hardest-working employees and families. They argue that business leaders' refusal to pay wages that workers can live on and Congress's failure to raise the federal minimum wage trap millions of workers in cycles of poverty. At the same time, Driscoll and Pearl demonstrate, these policies undermine the economy for all of us and threaten the foundation of democratic capitalism.


This highly illustrated, data-informed call for a major readjustment in our pay scale for workers at all levels, from two individuals who profit mightily from the current imbalanced system, presents a rebuke of modern American business practices and congressional paralysis. But it also offers a roadmap forward, with chapters describing what a reconfigured economy would look like. In an issue that is too often covered as a zero-sum game where there's a winner and a loser, Driscoll and Pearl offer resounding evidence to the contrary.



Author: John Driscoll, Morris Pearl, The Patriotic Millionaires
Publisher: New Press
Published: 12/03/2024
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781620978825

About the Author

The former CEO of Carecentrix, John Driscoll is the president of U.S. Healthcare for Walgreens Boots Alliance and a longtime member of Patriotic Millionaires. He lives in Stamford, Connecticut.

Morris Pearl, a former managing director of BlackRock, is chair of the Patriotic Millionaires, a group of hundreds of high-net-worth Americans committed to making all Americans better off by building a more prosperous, stable, and inclusive nation, and ensuring that millionaires, billionaires, and corporations pay their fair share of taxes. He is the co-author, with Erica Payne, of Tax the Rich! and co-author, with John Driscoll, of Pay the People! (both from The New Press) and lives in New York City.

The Patriotic Millionaires is a group of hundreds of high-net-worth Americans committed to making all Americans better off by building a more prosperous, stable, and inclusive nation, and ensuring that millionaires, billionaires, and corporations pay their fair share of taxes. It is the co-author (with Morris Pearl and Erica Payne) of Tax the Rich! and (with John Driscoll and Morris Pearl) of Pay the People! (both from The New Press).


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