Corporate Death Penalty

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 27, 2011

The Supreme Court upheld an Arizona law that allows the state to impose the "corporate death penalty" for companies who utilize illegal workers. Les Leopold, executive director of the Labor Institute and author of The Looting of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs, Pensions, and Prosperity—and What We Can Do About It, discusses the law--and we take your calls about what else should qualify corporations for the "corporate death penalty."

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