Will Corporate Lobbyists Steamroll Stock Buyback Regulations?
The SEC should stand up to the Chamber of Commerce and keep fighting for rules to expose CEOs who manipulate buybacks to pad their own pockets.
Have Our Corporate Chiefs Become Expendable?
Analysts across the political spectrum are challenging more than oversized CEO paychecks
It’s Time to Crack Down on Excessive CEO Pay
The pay gap between workers and CEOs at America’s largest low-wage employers is now 670 to 1. That’s obscene.
Etsy Sellers Strike for a Fairer Marketplace
Artisans rely on Etsy to market their creations, but the platform’s profit-maximizing policies hurt more than they help. Here’s why the sellers went on strike.
Janet Yellen’s Noble Effort Comes to Naught
To end the tax games rich people play, we need more oomph than isolated officials can deliver.
Combating Corporate ‘Pinkwashing’ During Pride Month With Mutual Aid
With a 22 percent poverty rate, the LGBTQ+ community needs more than rainbow flags from multi-million dollar corporations.
The ‘Secret’ That Gets CEOs Rich: Keep Workers Poor
At the major U.S. firms that compensate workers the worst, chiefs now pocket 670 times their typical worker pay.
Low-Wage Employers Spent Billions Inflating CEO Pay Through Stock Buybacks
President Biden has the power to crack down on executive excess by imposing new CEO pay and buyback restrictions on federal contractors.
Executive Excess 2022
The CEOs at America’s largest low-wage employers are grabbing huge raises while workers and consumers struggle with rising costs.
New Report: Executive Excess 2022
Two-thirds of low-wage corporations that cut worker pay in 2021 spent billions on stock buybacks.
JPMorgan Might Kneel for ‘Justice’ But It Isn’t Standing For True Racial Equity
As is clear from the immense harm corporations continue to cause to communities of color, a racial equity audit is just the first step of many to hold these companies accountable.
Our Outrageous CEO-Worker Pay Gap: Unfair and Unwise
Why support for capping CEO pay will only keep growing.
Ousted Pakistani Leader Was Challenging Investment Treaties That Give Corporations Excessive Power
Mexico and many other countries are facing anti-democratic corporate lawsuits like the case that pushed Khan to withdraw from international investment agreements.
What’s Going on in Buffalo These Days Can Be Inspiring — and Plenty Sobering Too
Buffalo’s baristas give us hope. Buffalo’s pols, meanwhile, are giving oligarchy our hard-earned tax dollars.