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.
The Men’s Club
Just 1 percent of America’s top-paid CEOs are women.
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.”
20 Years of Executive Excess
Since 1994, Executive Excess has reported annually on excessive CEO compensation.
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.
How We Pay for CEO “Performance”
A gaping tax loophole pads executive pay and the federal debt.
Pro-Austerity CEOs Rake in Taxpayer-Subsidized Pay
Ordinary Americans who rely on government retirement benefits are actually subsidizing runaway CEO pay.
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.
New Report Exposes Extreme Disparity in the Social Security Debate
Compared with ordinary Americans, CEOs pushing cuts have little to lose. CEO-backed cuts would reduce retirement benefits for a typical home care worker by almost 16 percent.
Report: Inequality in the Social Security Debate
How benefit cuts would impact health industry CEOs versus home health aides.
Who’s Really Winning the Smartphone Wars?
We’re letting top executives of giant corporations expropriate public “property” for private gain.
A Bold New Call for a ‘Maximum Wage’
A national labor leader aims to expand the economic fairness debate.
We’re All Subsidizing Free Lunches for America’s CEOs
It’s time to close the tax loopholes that subsidize runaway executive compensation.
Belt-Tightening Time
Schools and libraries are being squeezed but not CEO pay or corporate tax loopholes.