Just one example of a corporate culture that rewards executives for behavior that hurts workers, taxpayers, and shareholders.
Read moreEconomic Justice
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.
Latest Work
Why Supersized CEO Pay Is the Worst – in Three Charts
Unpacking the data highlights all the problems with excessive executive paychecks.
Read morePaying for Poor Performance
Over the past two decades, the myth of CEOs earning their runaway pay packages has grown into the ultimate scam.
Read moreThis Week in OtherWords: August 28, 2013
Sam Pizzigati and Emily Swift unpack the shocking findings from the 20th yearly edition of the Executive Excess report on runaway CEO.
Read moreNEW REPORT: Executive Excess 2013, “Bailed Out, Booted, and Busted”
IPS releases 20-year review showing that nearly 40 percent of America’s top-paid CEOs are not so great at their jobs.
Read moreThe Men’s Club
Just 1 percent of America’s top-paid CEOs are women.
Read moreExecutive Excess 2013: Bailed Out, Booted, and Busted
Nearly 40 percent of the CEOs on the highest-paid lists from the past 20 years were eventually “bailed out, booted, or busted.”
Read more20 Years of Executive Excess
Since 1994, Executive Excess has reported annually on excessive CEO compensation.
Read moreStop the CEO March on Washington
Millions of people acting together can still beat millions of dollars.
Read moreIn America’s West, Equality Takes a Hit
Utah may be losing its egalitarian advantage.
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