Tag: CEO pay
Tlaib and Sanders push bill to tax excessive CEO pay
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Rashida Tlaib unveiled legislation that would impose higher taxes on corporations paying executives more than 50 times their workers, citing billion-dollar gaps at firms like Walmart, Starbucks, and Tesla.
Bank CEOs rake in millions as fossil fuel financing jumps $162...
Banks boosted fossil fuel financing by billions in 2024, CEO pay soared, and climate commitments collapsed while frontline communities faced devastating consequences.
‘Grotesque spectacle’: CEO pay skyrockets 50% as worker wages stagnate
Oxfam analysis reveals global CEOs now earn 56 times more than average workers as corporate profits surge and economic inequality deepens on International Workers’ Day.
CEO pay soars 1,085% since 1978, workers’ pay stagnates
This widening gap reflects a troubling trend in the U.S. economy, where wealth continues to concentrate at the top, leaving ordinary workers behind.
Sanders’ bill targets sky-high CEO pay: A push for economic equity
The legislation, titled the Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act, targets corporations with stark discrepancies in compensation between CEOs and their workers.
Have our corporate chiefs become expendable?
Analysts across the political spectrum are challenging more than oversized CEO paychecks
Low-wage employers spent billions inflating CEO pay through stock buybacks
President Biden has the power to crack down on executive excess by imposing new CEO pay and buyback restrictions on federal contractors.
Ballot measure added in San Francisco to increase taxes on corporations...
“We believe that big corporations that can afford to pay their executives million-dollar salaries every year can afford to pay their fair share in taxes to help us recover.”
The 5-Step CEO pay scam
Average CEO pay at big corporations topped 14.5 million dollars in 2018. That’s after an increase of 5.2 million dollars per CEO over...
CEO pay is up nearly 1000% over the last four decades
"The economy would suffer no harm if CEOs were paid less (or taxed more)."
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Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back
Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.
Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails
The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.
The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace
Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.
State Department purge left US exposed as Iran war sent energy prices soaring
Internal layoffs removed the very officials who would have modeled oil supply disruptions, coordinated with Gulf energy partners, and prepared for retaliatory strikes as war with Iran drove gas and crude prices sharply higher.