High-Wire CEO
It is easier for a CEO to enter a tax haven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.
A Response to Disputes by Corporations over our Methodology
Since the release of Executive Excess 2011, several of the corporations included in our study have raised questions about our methodology. Here’s our response.
Corporate Freeloaders Make Taxpayers Pick up the Tab
A troubling number of U.S. corporations behave as moocher guests at our national cafeteria.
Democracy Now!: Study Reveals 25 Top Firms Pay More to CEOs than in Taxes [VIDEO]
Discussing the findings of our report, and answering questions about what comes next.
Press Conference Call (recording): The Massive CEO Rewards for Tax Dodging
On a press conference call on Wednesday, August 31, report co-authors Chuck Collins and Scott Klinger discuss the 25 CEOs who were paid more in compensation last year than their corporations paid in taxes, as well as other report findings, and answer reporters’ questions about the report.
Fracking the IRS
CEOs are routinely rewarded for tax-dodging gymnastics.
Release: CEOs Who Earn More Than Their Corporations Pay in Taxes
Of last year’s 100 highest-paid U.S. corporate chief executives, 25 took home more in CEO pay than their company paid in 2010 federal corporate income taxes.
A Tip for Joe the Machinist: Watch Your Back
A Labor Day reflection: Corporate America no longer even pays lip service to the importance of encouraging hard work and skill.
What would FDR Do?
We really can have a more equal America. We just need to fight for it.
CEO Pay Bashing, Tea Party Style
Has Jim DeMint, the right-wing senator leading the assault on federal domestic spending, finally gone too far? His corporate executive benefactors may soon come to think so.
Reining in Executive Pay
The landmark financial reform legislation passed in July includes reforms advocated for years by those who believe that empowering shareholders will clean up the executive pay mess.
Pumped CEOs
These top executives are so pumped up.
CEO Pay More Than Doubled Last Year
Sarah Anderson goes on Fox 5 DC to discuss the new Executive Excess report.
Can We Cut CEO Pay Down to Size?
The CEOs who cut the most jobs are also the ones who make the most money. How can we stop excessive CEO pay before it leads to bad behavior?
CEO Pay and the Great Recession
At a time when we’re experiencing the worst economic crisis in the past 80 years, CEOs who slash jobs should have to tighten their own belts.