Retirement Divide: 100 CEOs v. the Rest of Us
A new report calculates the gap in retirement assets between the top 100 CEOs and all African-American, Latino, female-headed, and white working class households.
Report: A Tale of Two Retirements
As working families face rising retirement insecurity, CEOs enjoy platinum pensions.
This City Just Came Up With a Novel Way to Fight Inequality. It Starts With Bold Grassroots Action.
Portland, Oregon has just adopted the first tax penalty on corporations that pay their CEOs more than 100 times what they pay typical workers.
Historic CEO Pay Tax Proposal Passes in Portland
Experts available for comment on the nation’s first tax penalty for extreme CEO-worker pay gaps.
We’ve Been Calling Out the Overpaid Oil Execs Trump’s Considering for Secretary of State for Years
As someone who’s been analyzing excessive CEO pay for more than 20 years, I feel like I know these guys.
Portland Could Be the First City to Tax Corporations With Huge CEO-Worker Pay Gaps
At a city council hearing, economic justice advocates helped build momentum behind CEO pay reform.
Why 2016 May See a Record Top 1%
America’s top earners will be rushing to maximize their 2016 income if Democrats gain a sweep in November. But what happens next will be what really matters.
Our Society is Unequal By Design
A new book from veteran researcher Dean Baker looks at the rigged rules that drive wealth to concentrate in fewer and fewer hands.
Angry With Washington Inaction, Activists are Taking the CEO Pay Fight Local
Portland is realizing that national change may need to bubble up from the grassroots.
Help Spread the Word: #CanURetire
Help us spread the word about our latest report, “A Tale of Two Retirements: As Working Families Face Rising Retirement Insecurity, CEOs Enjoy Platinum Pensions.”
Wells Fargo CEO Should Pay Back All Scam-Inflated Pay
$154 million of Stumpf’s pay, subsidized by taxpayers, qualified for this write-off between 2012 and 2015.
Presidential Politicians Are All Bark, No Bite on CEO Pay
While candidates are busy ranting about Wall Street’s fat cats, taxpayers are left picking up their billion-dollar tab.
The Failure of Bill Clinton’s CEO Pay Reform
A new IPS report finds that executive pay of Wall Street bankers has skyrocketed, despite the 1992 reform. Will Hillary fix it?
Executive Excess 2016: The Wall Street CEO Bonus Loophole
A new Institute for Policy Studies report is the first to calculate how much taxpayers have been subsidizing executive bonuses at the nation’s largest banks.
Executive Excess 2016: The Wall Street CEO Bonus Loophole
This 23rd annual report reveals how taxpayers are subsidizing financial crisis windfalls.