Wells Fargo CEO Should Pay Back All Scam-Inflated Pay
$154 million of Stumpf’s pay, subsidized by taxpayers, qualified for this write-off between 2012 and 2015.
Toward A Shared Prosperity
IPS Fellow Sarah Anderson is a featured panelist in the conference on rethinking the corporate social contract for greater economic justice.
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.
The Failure of Bill Clinton’s CEO Pay Reform
A new IPS report finds that executive pay of Wall Street bankers has skyrocketed, despite the 1992 reform. Will Hillary fix it?
Executive Excess 2016: The Wall Street CEO Bonus Loophole
A new Institute for Policy Studies report is the first to calculate how much taxpayers have been subsidizing executive bonuses at the nation’s largest banks.
Executive Excess 2016: The Wall Street CEO Bonus Loophole
This 23rd annual report reveals how taxpayers are subsidizing financial crisis windfalls.
Remembering Martin Sabo, A Champion of Fairness
Representative Martin Sabo fought for working people to reduce inequality. We’re proud to have worked alongside him.
Pensions Powered by Climate Change
Fossil fuel executives have gained financial security while leaving everyone else behind.
CEO-Worker Pay Ratios: Cutting-Edge Campaigns on a Critical Inequality Battleground
Be part of this discussion on the widening pay gaps on the global political stage and how we can build on promising initiatives to narrow this economic divide.
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.
A Golden Rule that Might Chip Away at Inequality
By making it mandatory for corporations to disclose the gap between what they pay their chief executives and most typical workers, the government will empower investors and consumers to compare individual corporations by their level of CEO greed.
The CEO ‘Performance Pay’ Charade
For too long, taxpayers have borne the burden of this scam.
How Highly Paid CEOs Rip Off Their Companies and the Public Via Fraud and Walk Away With Their Pockets Bulging
Just one example of a corporate culture that rewards executives for behavior that hurts workers, taxpayers, and shareholders.
Why Supersized CEO Pay Is the Worst – in Three Charts
Unpacking the data highlights all the problems with excessive executive paychecks.
Paying for Poor Performance
Over the past two decades, the myth of CEOs earning their runaway pay packages has grown into the ultimate scam.