Before the deficit reduction “super-committee” embarks on a $1–2 trillion course of human slashonomics, it should take a hard look at the Institute for Policy Studies’ (IPS) eighteenth annual executive compensation report, which details how...
“‘In 2009,’ an executive report from the Institute for Policy Studies details, ‘the CEOs who slashed their payrolls the deepest took home 42 percent more compensation than the year’s chief executive pay average for S&P 500...
What’s crystal clear in this well-documented report–whose title might have been “The Real Story Behind Today’s Unfair Economy”–is that the middle-class has largely been shafted by both Republicans and Democrats, whose campaign...