The Tax They Didn't Pay

Podcast: The Long Game for All: Counting What Frontlines Know · Venki Padmanabhan

Opublikowano: 2026-09-20

Evidence They Can’t Defend — Essay 12 of 13 I ran a plant in Ohio, in a manufacturing town, competing for labour against employers who had been there for generations and could pay more than we could. What we could offer was close to the local minimum. Turnover ran about 50 percent a year, and a meaningful share of the floor was staffed by temporary workers. Two of those temps were living in the local United Way shelter. They came to me for work and I took them gladly. What happened next was the most...