{"product_id":"pay-the-people-john-driscoll-9781620978825","title":"Pay the People!: Why Fair Pay Is Good for Business and Great for America","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom an unlikely source, a compelling argument that when workers are paid fairly, everyone, including businesses, benefits\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeventy percent of the U.S. economy is based on consumer demand, but almost forty percent of Americans can barely afford to pay their monthly bills. Nearly all the economic gains made in the last several decades have gone to the top one percent, while working families whose spending habits drive the economy have fallen further behind, and our economy has suffered as a result.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003ePay the People!\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Driscoll, Morris Pearl, The Patriotic Millionaires\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1620978822\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781620978825\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/03\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"John Driscoll","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45897723543807,"sku":"9781620978825","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4762e0a7-b504-4f04-8937-01194bb2f611.jpg?v=1721374588","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pay-the-people-john-driscoll-9781620978825","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}