Just 100 CEOs have as much saved up for retirement as 50 million American families combined.
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Combating inequality means both lifting up and building power at the bottom, and breaking up concentration of wealth and power at the top. That’s why we work at the intersection of economic and racial justice through projects designed to build leadership and self-empowerment of black workers, immigrant workers, and low-wage workers, youth and families affected by incarceration, along with projects aiming to reverse the rules that criminalize poor people of color, and projects fighting to ensure that the wealthy and Wall Street corporations pay their fair share of taxes.
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Read moreReport: 100 CEOs Have as Much in Retirement Assets as 41% of American Families
A just-released report by the Center for Effective Government and the Institute for Policy Studies, A Tale of Two Retirements, is the first to provide detailed statistics on the staggering gap between the retirement assets of Fortune 500 CEOs and the rest of America.
Read moreA Tale of Two Retirements
One hundred CEOs have as much in retirement assets as 41 percent of American families.
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