Donald S. Beyer, Jr.: “If long-term economic growth is our goal, then closing the gender wage gap is not just a moral imperative, it is an…”

Thank you all very much for being here. And I want to thank you for joining me in this vital conversation about the economic cost of shareholder primacy.

From the 1930s to the mid-1970s, American corporations largely followed a retain-and-reinvest strategy to focus on long-term innovation and job security for workers.

Thanks to the efforts of this Congress and the Biden administration, unemployment is down to 3.6 percent.

The loss of life is a national tragedy, and we mourn those lives that were taken too soon.