Corporate Crackdown Project: Voters Want to Crack Down on Corporate Crime
By Aidan Smith, Senior Advisor at Data for Progress
It’s no secret that powerful corporations in the United States operate as if they’re above the law. The federal government has long taken a hands-off approach to corporate crime, creating an environment where corporations violate laws with impunity. From cheating workers out of earned wages and benefits to destroying the environment through pollution, corporations continue to get away with harmful activity due to lax regulatory enforcement.
Data for Progress and the Revolving Door Project’s collaborative Corporate Crackdown Project makes the case for why and how President Joe Biden can use executive action to crack down on corporate crime. Without needing to pass new legislation, the federal government has an array of tools at its disposal to crack down on corporate wrongdoing.
In doing so, Biden won’t just be taking needed steps to rein in corporate harm that has long gone unpunished. Indeed, by aggressively reining in corporate crime, he’ll be able to show the American people he is on their side, not that of powerful corporate interests. Polling by Data for Progress in November 2021 found that voters across the political spectrum would welcome a more aggressive approach to reining in corporate wrongdoing.