Our Reports
Report: CEO-Worker Pay Ratios in the Banking Industry
A decade after the crash, excessive pay is still a problem at the mega-banks and the 2nd-tier firms that stand to benefit from the current deregulation push.
Report: How Your Personal Income Taxes Were Spent in 2017
Our analysis found that the average taxpayer put in 29 working days in 2017 to pay Pentagon contractors.
Report: The Poor People's Campaign, 50 Years Later
Auditing America 50 Years After the Poor People's Campaign Challenged System Racism, Poverty, Militarism, and our National Morality.
Report: High Flyers 2017
How the private jet lobby shifts costs to the rest of us, threatens our security, and fuels a warming planet.
Report: Green Climate Fund, A Performance Check
An initial assessment of whether the Green Climate Fund is living up to its mandate finds that its becoming a sideshow to big development banks.
Report: The Road to Zero Wealth
How the Racial Wealth Divide is Hollowing Out America’s Middle Class
Report: Corporate Tax Cuts Boost CEO Pay, Not Jobs
This 24th annual report rebuts the GOP claim that slashing the corporate tax rate will lead to more and better jobs.
Report: How States Can Boost Renewables With Benefits for All
Renewable Portfolio Standards and Distributed Solar Access for Low-Income Households
Report: The CEO Pay Tax Break in the Republican Health Care Proposal
The cost of removing Obamacare limits on the tax deductibility of executive compensation, based on pay data at the top 5 insurers.
Report: The Wall Street Bonus Pool and Low Wage Workers
The 2016 bonus pool held enough dollars to lift the pay of all of the country's more than 3 million servers up to $15 an hour.
Report: The Human Trafficking of Domestic Workers in the United States
Findings from the Beyond Survival Campaign
Report: A Tale of Two Retirements
As working families face rising retirement insecurity, CEOs enjoy platinum pensions.
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Executive Excess 2016: The Wall Street CEO Bonus Loophole
This 23rd annual report reveals how taxpayers are subsidizing financial crisis windfalls.
Report: Ever-Growing Gap
Without Change, African-American and Latino Families Won't Match White Wealth for Centuries
Utilities Pay Up
How ending tax dodging by America's electric utilities can help fund a job-creating, clean energy transition.
Report: Mothers at the Gate
A movement of family members is developing around the country that aims to challenge both the conditions in which their loved ones are held and the fact of mass incarceration itself.
Mining, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Conflict: OceanaGold and the El Dorado Foundation in El Salvador
This study finds that OceanaGold’s attempt to rebrand its proposed gold mine in El Salvador through the use of a company-sponsored foundation at the local level is deceitful, disrespectful and dangerous
Off the Deep End: The Wall Street Bonus Pool and Low-Wage Workers
The financial industry’s 2015 bonuses were double the combined earnings of all Americans who work full-time at the federal minimum wage.
CEO Stock(ing) Stuffers
Loophole allowed 10 companies to shave $180 million off their taxes for CEO pay last year.
Billionaire Bonanza: The Forbes 400 and the Rest of Us
Wealthiest 20 people own more wealth than half the American population
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