The Market Made Them Do It
Corporate boards are asking us to blame sky-high CEO pay on the laws of supply and demand.
Lancaster Shows How to Say No to Geo Group
A Pennsylvania county goes up against a giant of the private prison industry and comes out victorious.
The Tax Act is a Lost Opportunity to Help Small Business
For Main Street small businesses, the benefits of the Tax Act are peanuts. Nearly half of all the savings go to people making over $1 million a year.
Corporate Wage Theft is on the Rise
Executives have a powerful incentive to cheat their workers: to pad their own exorbitant paychecks.
A New Progressive Standard on Campaign Cash: It Can’t Come from Corporations
PACs aren’t sitting well with left-leaning voters, leading candidates to move away from a reliance on corporate funding.
How to Track CEO-Worker Pay Ratios
The retail industry lobby doesn’t want transparency on pay gaps. Fortunately, it’s now easier to find out for yourself whether companies are sharing the wealth.
Seven Surprising Tax Facts for 2018
Surprise! Corporations and billionaires are paying way less in taxes, with some profitable corporations paying nothing at all.
Teachers Deserve a Raise. Here’s How to Fund It.
Huge tax cuts for energy corporations have left state school budgets broke.
One-Time Bonuses, Full-Time Con: Trump’s Tax Cuts Deliver Worker Layoffs
Corporate public relations teams extol bonuses to pump up the Republican re-election effort, but many people will end up unemployed.
A New Landmark in CEO-Worker Pay Ratio Disclosure
Honeywell has just revealed a 333:1 gap between the compensation of the 143,000-employee firm’s top executive and most typical workers.
Video: Corporations Cutting Jobs After Tax Cut
In this video, Sarah Anderson talks about the CEOs who announced that after the GOP’s tax giveaway they’d be cutting jobs, not creating them.
How to Make Lawmakers Rue the Day They Voted for This Scam of a Tax Bill
We can use this bill as a catalyst for the next wave of tax-fairness and economic-justice organizing.
Outside Tax Prom, Protesters Offer a Different Party
The gala, like the Trump tax plan, caters to the wealthy at the expense of everyone else.
Kansas Tried Trickle-Down Economics. It Didn’t Work.
A failed experiment left the state with underfunded schools, gaps in public services—and lessons for the rest of us.
The President Is a Ponzi Scheme
Here and abroad, Trump’s wealthy backers understand that his populist rhetoric is a masquerade.