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.
Banks Make Millions Playing Games with Your Accounts
As Americans are desperately trying to juggle their finances, bank CEOs are maximizing their profits through overdraft fees.
Here’s Why We Can’t Rely on Shareholders to Fix CEO Pay
BlackRock, the top money manager in the world, claims to want to link performance with executive compensation. But its actions tell a different story.
Gender Pay Gap Drives Inequality
The persistent pay gap between men and women is a key driver of economic inequality today.
How our screwed-up CEO pay system makes climate change worse
Runaway CEO pay at the 30 largest U.S. public fossil fuel corporations rewards short-term actions, with disastrous results for the world’s climate.
Darden Launches Unfounded Attack on IPS Research — Again
For the second time, the restaurant giant is using disinformation to distract attention from IPS calculations on the company’s CEO-worker pay gap.
Darden’s Golden Goodbyes
While the chain restaurant giant’s servers face economic uncertainty, three top executives are sailing away with $68 million in compensation
Restaurant Industry Pay: Taxpayers’ Double Burden
New report shows that while restaurant executives are fighting living wages for their workers, they’re also benefiting from tax subsidies for their own pay.
Fast Food CEOs Gorge on Taxpayer-Subsidized Pay
New report shows that while top fast food executives are fighting living wages for their workers, they’re benefiting from tax breaks on their own pay.
Platinum-Plated Pensions
In the current budget debate, the loudest calls for Social Security cuts are coming from two lobby groups led by CEOs who will never have to worry about their own retirement security.
NEW REPORT: Executive Excess 2013, “Bailed Out, Booted, and Busted”
IPS releases 20-year review showing that nearly 40 percent of America’s top-paid CEOs are not so great at their jobs.
Executive Excess 2013: Bailed Out, Booted, and Busted
Nearly 40 percent of the CEOs on the highest-paid lists from the past 20 years were eventually “bailed out, booted, or busted.”
Runaway CEO Pay Gets a Free Pass
The House Financial Services Committee has just moved to repeal the only statutory provision now on the books that puts real heat on overpaid top executives.
Tracking CEO Pay
The most important executive compensation indicator is the gap between what CEOs and their workers are paid.
Corporate Tax Dodgers: 10 Companies and Their Tax Loopholes
A new report looks at 10 U.S. corporations that have used an array of tax loopholes and corporate subsidies to slash their tax bills: Bank of America, Citigroup, ExxonMobil, FedEx, General Electric, Honeywell, Merck, Microsoft, Pfizer, and Verizon.