Corporate Freeloaders Make Taxpayers Pick up the Tab
A troubling number of U.S. corporations behave as moocher guests at our national cafeteria.
Democracy Now!: Study Reveals 25 Top Firms Pay More to CEOs than in Taxes [VIDEO]
Discussing the findings of our report, and answering questions about what comes next.
Press Conference Call (recording): The Massive CEO Rewards for Tax Dodging
On a press conference call on Wednesday, August 31, report co-authors Chuck Collins and Scott Klinger discuss the 25 CEOs who were paid more in compensation last year than their corporations paid in taxes, as well as other report findings, and answer reporters’ questions about the report.
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.
Big Bucks to Dodge Taxes
When tax shelters allow CEOs to take home more in pay than their entire company pays in taxes, something is very wrong.
Pay Your Share: Stop Corporate Tax Dodgers
Corporate tax dodging has gone so out of control that 25 major U.S. corporations paid their CEOs more than they paid the U.S. government in federal income taxes.
Fracking the IRS
CEOs are routinely rewarded for tax-dodging gymnastics.
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.
A Tip for Joe the Machinist: Watch Your Back
A Labor Day reflection: Corporate America no longer even pays lip service to the importance of encouraging hard work and skill.
What would FDR Do?
We really can have a more equal America. We just need to fight for it.
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.
Mickey Mouse Wage Hike
Why don’t Disney’s animators, performers, and other hard-working employees get a 45 percent increase in their pay, like the company’s CEO?
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.
Toxic CEO Pay Story
For a new generation of Angelo Mozilo wannabes, the sky is still the limit.
Surprise! The People Speak
The general public doesn’t want to balance the federal budget by putting Social Security on the chopping block.