Tag: Corporate Greed
How Internet Companies like Verizon And Comcast Abandoned Rural America
One in five people in rural America lack access to reliable internet. They've been abandoned by big telecommunications companies like Verizon, Comcast, and AT&T who…
October 17, 2023
What Nestle and Abbott Don’t Want You to Know
For decades, workers who make protein for Nestle made a fair living. After a $26 billion takeover, a new owner wants to take away lunch…
October 17, 2023
The Hidden Reason Manufacturing Jobs Have Disappeared
For decades, battery manufacturing supported the communities of Fennimore and Portage, Wisconsin. Then suddenly, last year, everything changed. Energizer is moving its jobs here overseas—to…
October 10, 2023
The Government’s Radical Solution to Lower Drug Prices
One in four Americans can't afford to fill their prescription or pay for their medicine. Why? It's because Big Pharma companies like Mylar are exploiting…
September 29, 2023
The Real Reason Autoworkers Are Fed Up
The United Auto Workers strike is historic. Not just because it's the first time in history the union is striking all Big 3 automakers—Ford, GM,…
September 18, 2023
This Is The Biggest Threat To Actors & Writers
AI could soon be used to produce an entire episode of Law & Order: SVU. We talked with former SVU showrunner Warren Leight and multiple…
September 13, 2023
Is Public Ownership The Solution To High Utility Bills?
Maine residents will vote this November on whether to create the first statewide consumer-owned utility in the country. Residents in the state face skyrocketing electricity…
September 8, 2023
The U.S. Is Finally Taking On Big Pharma
Biden and the Democrats finally implemented something that's been debated for decades — letting Medicare negotiate down the price of drugs. Now Big Pharma is…
September 5, 2023
The Republicans’ Main Talking Point Against Drug Price Negotiations Comes From a Pharmaceutical Investor
By Donald Shaw and David Moore, Sludge On Tuesday, following the Biden administration’s announcement of the pharmaceutical drugs that it has chosen for Medicare price negotiations…
August 31, 2023
How Ron DeSantis Let Billionaires Destroy Florida
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has raked in millions of dollars—and even a golf simulator—from wealthy corporate interests. At the same time, he’s stripped protections from…
August 26, 2023
How America Can Stop Dangerous Train Derailments
An unlikely coalition of Republicans and Democrats are taking on railroad companies’ greed. Recently, following a disastrous crash in East Palestine, OH, there has been…
May 12, 2023
Customer Service Sucks By Design
Hosted by Ethan is Online Host: Remember around the holidays when thousands of Southwest flights were canceled and customers were sleeping(00:46) in airports and (00:12)…
April 7, 2023