Corporate Campaign Spending: They Get What They Pay for
For America’s corporations, it pays to get involved in elections. This might be good for business, but it’s bad for politics.
Dear Secretary Panetta: U.S. Taxpayers Have Better Things to Do With Their Money Than Fund Nukes in Europe
The Project for Government Oversight has written a letter to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta reminding him that it’s U.S. taxpayers who pay for nuclear weapons in Europe.
Sen. Durbin Floor Speech on IPS CEO Pay Report [VIDEO]
Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), Senate Majority Whip, spoke about the IPS Executive Excess report during a floor speech about how corporate accountability can help the U.S. overcome the current economic crisis.
Corporate Freeloaders Make Taxpayers Pick up the Tab
A troubling number of U.S. corporations behave as moocher guests at our national cafeteria.
Runaway CEO Pay Helped Create the Economic Crisis; So Why Are Politicians Still Covering For Rich Execs?
A new study looks at the worst executive excesses – while Congress continues to help CEOs hide their outrageous pay rates from the public.
Study: CEO Pay Tops Tax Bill
“What are America’s CEOs doing to deserve their latest bountiful rewards?” IPS wrote in their report. “We have no evidence that CEOs are fashioning, with their executive leadership, more effective […]
Where Pay for Chiefs Outstrips U.S. Taxes
“We have no evidence that C.E.O.’s are fashioning, with their executive leadership, more effective and efficient enterprises,” the study concluded. “On the other hand, ample evidence suggests that C.E.O.’s and […]
Release: CEOs Who Earn More Than Their Corporations Pay in Taxes
Of last year’s 100 highest-paid U.S. corporate chief executives, 25 took home more in CEO pay than their company paid in 2010 federal corporate income taxes.
Executive Excess 2011: The Massive CEO Rewards for Tax Dodging
CEOs rake it in while their corporations dodge taxes.
New Report Exposes Wall Street Lobby Against CEO Pay Reform
The requirement for companies to report incentive-based pay arrangements is under attack.
An Eye-Opening Window into America’s Executive Suites
A cutting-edge new Web site, from the nation’s labor movement, offers working Americans the information we need to understand CEO pay excess – and the tools we need to fight it.
CEO Pay Bashing, Tea Party Style
Has Jim DeMint, the right-wing senator leading the assault on federal domestic spending, finally gone too far? His corporate executive benefactors may soon come to think so.
Pay Up, Corporate Tax Dodgers
We’re chumps unless we force Congress to stop tax haven abuse.
Toxic CEO Pay Story
For a new generation of Angelo Mozilo wannabes, the sky is still the limit.
Executive Excess and Then Some
“A new survey finds that corporate chieftains who inflict economic pain on the company’s workers receive more financial gain for themselves. The Institute for Policy Studies examined the layoff-payoff records […]