Corporate Profits are Soaring as Prices Rise: Are Corporate Greed and Profiteering Fueling Inflation?

Full Committee Hearing

Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2022 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Room SD-608

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Agenda

There will be a Hearing of the Committee on the Budget 

On:  Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 11:00 AM

In:  Room SD-608. Members of the Committee may participate in person or by video conference technology.

To consider:  Corporate Profits are Soaring as Prices Rise: Are Corporate Greed and Profiteering Fueling Inflation?


The Committee will follow guidelines developed in consultation with the Office of the Attending Physician and the Senate Rules Committee to protect the health of members, staff, and the public. This includes maintaining six-foot social distance spacing in the meeting room. Pursuant to this guidance, Senate office buildings are not open to the public other than official business visitors and credentialed press at this time. Accordingly, in-person visitors cannot be accommodated at this meeting.


Witnesses

  1. The Honorable Robert B. Reich
    Carmel P. Friesen’s Professor of Public Policy
    University of California, Berkley
  2. Ms. Lindsay Owens, Ph.D.
    Executive Director
    Groundwork Collaborative
  3. The Honorable Michael Faulkender, Ph.D.
    Dean's Professor of Finance
    University of Maryland