The One Percent Solution

How Corporations Are Remaking America One State at a Time

De: Gordon Lafer

Narrado por: Kevin Moriarty

In the aftermath of the 2010 Citizens United decision, it's become 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 50 state legislatures and encompassing a wide range of labor and economic policies.

One of the 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, eliminate paid sick leave, undo the right to sue over job discrimination, and cut essential public services. For anyone who wants to know what to expect from corporate-backed Republican leadership in Washington, DC, there is no better guide than this record of what the same set of actors has been doing in the state legislatures under its control.

The book is published by Cornell University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

"Meticulously demonstrates how the Koch brothers and the Supreme Court's Citizen's United decision of 2010 have influenced elections and public policy in the states." (The New York Review of Books)

"A wake-up call to anyone concerned about the economic well-being of working Americans." (Dissent)

"Reveals the outlines of a coordinated lobbying campaign that could have the effect of increasing economic and political inequality in America." (Isaac William Martin, UC San Diego)

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Amazing Information

While I knew in broad strokes about ALEC, this book fills in the gaps by tying all of the individual actions together into a big picture of how corporations and the very rich have made the opinions of the majority largely irrelevant.

Robotic Narration

The narrator was so robotic I had to check to make sure it wasn’t AI. Ultimately returned it before the end of chapter one. I’ll have to read it instead.