Tag: Corporate Greed
Playing with Players’ Lives: How the NFL Hid a Crisis Killing Athletes
Chris Nowinski: The NFL is an enormous business with more than $11 billion a year in revenue, and the job that they ask people to…
January 24, 2023
Moderna To Raise Prices Over 400% For Vaccine That Taxpayers Helped Create
Narrated by Zain Rizvi, Research Director at Public Citizen Millions of Americans have benefitted from a revolutionary breakthrough in modern medicine — the so-called Moderna…
January 13, 2023
How This Billionaire Couple Stole California’s Water Supply
While 40 million Californians suffer through unprecedented drought, one billionaire couple owns a massive share of the state's water system, largely seized in a series…
December 28, 2022
Schumer Freezes Antitrust Bills After Big Tech Lobbyists Bundled Millions
By Donald Shaw and David Moore, Sludge Several bills to curb the market power of the world's largest tech companies are being stalled to death…
December 15, 2022
Pilots At The Four Largest U.S. Airlines Are Leading An Uprising
[PA Sound] Denis Tajer: Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain. The first officer and I are on day five and we just came off…
December 9, 2022
Howard Schultz’s Own Foundation Decries Starbucks’ Treatment of Its Workers
By Ginny Keenan Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s foundation has released a report that rates Starbucks as one of the worst large employers in the country…
December 9, 2022
Everyone Should Be Very Skeptical of the Supposed Benefits of the Kroger-Albertsons Merger
If more consumers buy more of our products, consumers will be better off. That’s one of the arguments that grocery giant Kroger is making to…
December 3, 2022
Excessive Overtime Is Killing UPS Workers
UPS drivers are revealing the gruesome reality behind your online orders. They say the company is forcing 12+ hour days and constant overtime. UPS's scheduling…
December 1, 2022
Revealed: I’m The Guy Behind The Viral ‘Insulin Is Free’ Tweet
Hey, my name’s Sean and this is how I accidentally made national news with $8, 9 words, and 10 minutes. [News clip]: Perhaps the most…
November 23, 2022
Why Food Prices Could Skyrocket Thanks to This Grocery Merger
Written and narrated by Errol Schweizer, former VP of Whole Foods, and Benjamin Lorr, author of The Secret Life of Groceries If you walk into…
November 15, 2022
Peter Thiel: The Billionaire Buying the End of Democracy
We all live in Peter Thiel's world. From business to technology to politics, he’s used his massive wealth to shape society and control your life.…
November 14, 2022
Albertsons Risks Toys “R” Us-Style Collapse From Private Equity Payout, Data Show
Three weeks after Kroger upended America’s grocery market by announcing it intended to purchase Albertsons, I talked to a man whose job is facilitating these…
November 8, 2022