3 Bills to Rein in Executive Pay
Before heading home for summer recess, members of Congress are rushing to introduce proposals for cracking down on overpaid executives.
Will San Francisco Be the Second City to Tax Extreme CEO-Worker Pay Gaps?
SF voters will decide the fate of a proposed tax on corporations that pay their top exec more than 100 times median worker pay.
When Corporations Pay CEOs Way More Than Employees, Make Them Pay!
Portland’s groundbreaking strategy for curbing executive compensation should be a model for the rest of the country.
If Your Boss Makes Millions, It’s Not Because of the ‘Market’
On average, America’s CEOs make 312 times what their workers take home — and that has nothing to do with supply and demand.
The Market Made Them Do It
Corporate boards are asking us to blame sky-high CEO pay on the laws of supply and demand.
Rep. Keith Ellison Takes a Hard Look at New CEO Pay Ratio Data
The Minnesota lawmaker has been a champion of efforts to defend the disclosure reform from Republican attack.
Tracking Corporate Responses to the Tax Scam
A new online tool provides data on whether specific corporations are sharing tax cut windfalls with employees or only rewarding executives and shareholders.
How to Track CEO-Worker Pay Ratios
The retail industry lobby doesn’t want transparency on pay gaps. Fortunately, it’s now easier to find out for yourself whether companies are sharing the wealth.
Angry With Washington Inaction, Activists are Taking the CEO Pay Fight Local
Portland is realizing that national change may need to bubble up from the grassroots.
Inequality is at the Heart of the Verizon Strike
Tens of thousands of Verizon employees walked off the job to protest the corporate giant that has registered massive profits and lavished extravagant pay on executives while shortchanging workers and customers.