Stock-Linked Executive Pay and Buybacks: a Destructive Combo
A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies finds that half of the 100 S&P 500 firms with the lowest median worker wage revised their pay rules in 2020, […]
3 Bills to Rein in Executive Pay
Before heading home for summer recess, members of Congress are rushing to introduce proposals for cracking down on overpaid executives.
Skyrocketing executive pay packages are about to become more costly for corporate America
For years, lawmakers and regulators have struggled with how to rein in the multimillion-dollar pay packages earned by corporate America’s top executives. Despite legislation signed in the 1990s attempting to cap […]
Will Shareholders Get Money’s Worth As Oil Giants Link Executive Pay to Climate Results?
Money talks. That’s why one key element in the battle against climate change must be aligning the financial compensation of executives to tangible corporate efforts to decarbonize. Better aligning incentives […]
Taxpayers Subsidized Wells Fargo Executive Pay Amid Bank’s Fraud
As lawmakers grilled Wells Fargo’s CEO at a Capital Hill hearing, a Washington-based think tank crunched company data. Their findings? If you paid federal taxes, you essentially subsidized the multimillion dollar […]
No Good Reason the SEC Has Failed to Fulfill its Executive Pay Mandates
On a conference call today, Congressman Keith Ellison (MN-5), Heather Slavkin Corzo, AFL-CIO Director of Office of Investment and Sarah Anderson, Institute for Policy Studies Global Economy Project Director, discussed […]
U.S. executive pay criticized
The obscure part of Obamacare that takes on executive pay
Starting last year, a piece of the Affordable Care Act lowered the limit to $500,000 for health insurers (although the $1 million limit still applies to the rest of corporate America). […]
Obamacare rolls back executive pay deductions at insurers
You may not be aware that corporations traditionally have been able to deduct up to $1 million in salaries for some of its top executives from their tax bills, and […]
Restaurant chains slash tax bill with executive pay deduction
Executive Pay Of Austerity Advocates Saves Companies More Than $1 Billion Via Tax Loophole
“Companies in the Fix the Debt coalition, which advocates for federal austerity policies, qualified for $1 billion or more in tax breaks tied to executive pay packages from 2009 to […]
The Morning Ledger: Executive Pay Under Fire
The liberal group said the tax code has become “a powerful enabler of bloated CEO pay” because of tax breaks and subsidies and “tax dollars are flowing from average Americans […]
How Our Tax Dollars Subsidize Exorbitant CEO and Executive Pay
“Our report details how taxpayers are in effect rewarding corporate executives for gaming the tax system,” says co-author Scott Klinger. “The tax code has become a prime enabler of bloated CEO pay.”
Executive Pay, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform, and Consumer Protection Act
Sarah Anderson, a co-author of 18 annual IPS “Executive Excess” reports, will speak at this conference on CEO pay reforms in the Dodd-Frank legislation, along with other academic, labor, and financial industry experts.