The Huge Pay Gaps at Low-Wage Federal Contractors
New federal contracting standards could incentivize corporations to narrow the economic divides that undermine employee morale and business effectiveness.
How to Crack Down on Greedy CEOs, Massive Employee Pay Gaps
There’s an easy way to cap sky-high CEO salaries and limit outrageous pay gaps — and it would actually work.
With CEO Pay Skyrocketing, the Unionization Surge is Hardly Surprising
Pandemic disparities have driven workers at Starbucks and several other low-wage employers to demand a fair reward for their labor.
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.
Employers: If You Want Workers, Pay a Living Wage
It’s not that people don’t want to work — it’s that they don’t want to work for so little.
How Corporations Pumped Up CEO Pay While Their Low-Wage Workers Suffered in the Pandemic
More than half of the country’s 100 largest low-wage employers rigged pay rules in 2020 to give CEOs 29 percent average raises while their frontline employees made 2 percent less.
New Report: Executive Excess 2021
Low-Wage Workers Lost Hours, Jobs, and Lives. Their Employers Bent the Rules — To Pump up CEO Paychecks.
Executive Excess 2021
Low-Wage Workers Lost Hours, Jobs, and Lives. Their Employers Bent the Rules — To Pump up CEO Paychecks.
Sanders, Lee, and Tlaib Lead Effort to Tax Huge CEO-Worker Pay Gaps
The House-Senate companion bill addresses corporate America’s extreme disparities, giving firms an incentive to lift up the bottom and bring down the top of their pay scales.
Have Researchers Just Hit an Inequality Trifecta?
Three new sets of stats help us understand why America’s 400 richest have never been richer.
We’ve Waited Too Long for Corporations to Fix the CEO-Worker Pay Gap on Their Own
A decade after bonus-chasing executives crashed the economy, we need tax incentives to push companies to narrow the CEO worker pay gap.
