Rick is the co-president of Bendable Labs, a social purpose corporation that designs, builds and tests innovations in the areas of lifelong learning, workforce development and job quality. Before co-founding Bendable Labs in 2023, Rick spent 15 years at the Drucker Institute, where he was the founding executive director and, later, head of the KH Moon Center for a Functioning Society. He is the author of five books, including 2022’s Still Broke: Walmart’s Remarkable Transformation and the Limits of Socially Conscious Capitalism, which looks at the state of low-paid work in America through the lens of the nation’s largest employer. His 2017 book, The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America, traces major changes over the past five decades to the social contract between employer and employee. He advised California State Controller Betty Yee on job-quality metrics and has spoken about workforce-related topics at the Aspen Institute, Brookings Institution, Harvard University’s Trade Union Program, the California Future of Work Commission and other venues. Rick serves on the boards of the progressive publication Capital & Main and the nonprofit organization Living Wage For US. He is a senior fellow at the Burning Glass Institute and a senior research fellow at Claremont Graduate University.