
Executive Excess 2023
New report finds the ‘Low-Wage 100’ large corporations have spent more than $340 billion on stock buybacks since 2020.
New report finds the ‘Low-Wage 100’ large corporations have spent more than $340 billion on stock buybacks since 2020.
At Walmart, Home Depot, and 20 other low-wage employers, executives have accumulated enough funds in these exclusive accounts to generate monthly retirement checks larger than their workers’ median annual pay.
Champions of a more egalitarian society made important strides, building the power of workers while reducing the power of wealthy tax dodgers and greedy pharma execs.
There’s an easy way to cap sky-high CEO salaries and limit outrageous pay gaps — and it would actually work.
The movement to tax extreme wealth to pay for human needs suddenly has a rare political opening.
Revenue options that would also curb runaway executive pay have strong appeal across the political spectrum.
If top U.S. corporate execs are still pocketing jackpots a decade from now, our environment has no shot.
An across-the-board rate hike and a CEO pay surtax would send a powerful message: All large profitable corporations must pay their fair share.
While low-wage employees lost hours, jobs, and lives, their CEOs got raises. It’s time to tax huge CEO-worker pay gaps.
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.
Low-Wage Workers Lost Hours, Jobs, and Lives. Their Employers Bent the Rules — To Pump up CEO Paychecks.
Low-Wage Workers Lost Hours, Jobs, and Lives. Their Employers Bent the Rules — To Pump up CEO Paychecks.
Leading research and movement organizations and progressive Democrats call for rapid passage of legislation to transform the economy.
Worldwide, ever more of us are realizing we need a ceiling on what our greediest can grab.
The 2020 bonus pool for 182,100 securities industry employees could pay for more than 1 million jobs at a $15 minimum wage for a year.