For half a century, the stock market soared, executive compensation exploded, corporate profits have risen dramatically, worker productivity has gone up, but workers’ wages have been comparatively flat and costs keep going up.
Brown critiques the economic disparity affecting workers despite corporate success.
Share & report
More from Sherrod Brown
New technologies risk further concentrating power on Wall Street at the expense of American savers.
AI is a tool, and we have the responsibility to set policies to ensure that when and if this tool is used, it's used to make our economy work better for consumers and savers--not to exploit them.
the Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act introduced by Sen. Brown (D-OH) and Rep. Schakowksy (D-IL-09) would, among other things, set minimum nurse-to-patient staffing requirements.
Workers have been the casualties of an 'inevitable march toward progress' too many times before.
Other voices in this conversation
