Pay the People: Why Fair Pay Is Good for Business and Great for America

This book is a prescient and compelling call-to-action from Driscoll (president of U.S. healthcare for the Walgreens Boots Alliance), a concerned group of hundreds of high-net-worth Americans called the Patriotic Millionaires, and Morris Pearl (chair, Patriotic Millionaires; coauthor, Tax the Rich!). The authors argue that paying all workers a livable wage should become a standard, common-sense practice for businesses. Rather than being a jeremiad or an ideologically influenced work, the book presents its argument with plenty of data-driven examples from the private, academic and governmental sectors, along with their own expertise and insight. The book makes an impassioned, across-the-divide argument and is a succinct and formidable behind-the-scenes look at what has been happening economically in the U.S. over the last few decades.