The One Percent Solution: How Corporations Are Remaking America One State at a Time

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In the aftermath of the 2010 Citizens United decision, it’s turn into commonplace to note the growing political dominance of a small segment of the economic elite. But what exactly are those members of the elite doing with their newfound influence? The One Percent Solution provides an answer to this question for the first time. Gordon Lafer’s book is a comprehensive account of legislation promoted by the nation’s biggest corporate lobbies across all fifty state legislatures and encompassing a variety of labor and economic policies.In an era of growing economic insecurity, it turns out that probably the most main reasons life is becoming harder for American workers is a relentless―and concerted―offensive by the country’s best-funded and most powerful political forces: corporate lobbies empowered by the Supreme Court to influence legislative outcomes with an endless supply of cash. These actors have successfully championed hundreds of new laws that lower wages, get rid of paid sick leave, undo the right to sue over job discrimination, and cut essential public services and products.Lafer shows how corporate strategies have been shaped by twenty-first-century conditions―including globalization, economic decline, and the populism reflected in both the Trump and Sanders campaigns of 2016. Possibly most important, Lafer shows that the corporate legislative agenda has come to endanger the scope of democracy itself.For someone who wants to know what to anticipate from corporate-backed Republican leadership in Washington, D.C., there’s no better guide than this record of what the same set of actors has been doing in the state legislatures under its keep watch over.


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