Pay the People!

Outline

Pay the People! (2024) argues that better wages can strengthen workers, businesses, and the wider economy. John Driscoll, Morris Pearl, and the Patriotic Millionaires examine how low pay affects financial security, productivity, and economic participation, while presenting the business case for compensating employees more fairly. The book combines economic arguments with policy proposals intended to create broader prosperity and a more sustainable economy.

• Better wages can strengthen workers, businesses, and the wider economy at the same time.
• Low pay damages workers' financial security, which in turn affects how they do their jobs.
• Low wages hurt productivity and limit how fully people can take part in the economy.
• The book makes a business case for paying employees more fairly, not only a moral one.
• Policy proposals in the book aim to spread prosperity more widely and build a more sustainable economy.

John Driscoll, Morris Pearl, and the Patriotic Millionaires bring together experience in business, finance, healthcare, and economic advocacy. Driscoll is a healthcare executive and entrepreneur, while Pearl is a former investment executive and chair of the Patriotic Millionaires. The organisation consists of wealthy Americans who advocate for fair taxation, stronger wages, and economic policies that expand opportunity.