Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Tag: CEOs

Historic CEO pay tax passes in Portland

The Oregon city has just adopted the first tax penalty on corporations with extreme gaps between their CEO and worker pay.

We don’t need Washington to fix bloated CEO pay

There are clear channels that people can use to put downward pressure on the pay of those at the top in both the corporate and noncorporate sector that don’t require going through Washington.

Time to Treat Bank CEOs Like Adults

In corporate America, and especially at the big banks, no one is expected to act like adults, they understand it is about stuffing your pockets at everyone else's expense.

How Can a CEO Feel Good About Being Vile?

Is a big raise enough to make CEOs feel good about being so vile?

Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime for a CEO?

Corporate honchos say taxes are “forcing” them to relocate their businesses to offshore tax havens.

Happy 2016! These CEOs Have Already Banked An Average Worker’s Salary

Country's 100 top-paid executives took home an average of $8.96 million in 2014

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House Republicans advance massive budget bill with Medicaid cuts and tax breaks after secret...

GOP lawmakers pushed a sweeping bill forward in a rare Sunday vote after cutting a backroom deal with far-right Republicans to fast-track deeper Medicaid cuts and slash food aid—while offering permanent tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.

Knowledge is not just power but what drives unrivaled U.S. prosperity – slashed on...

Fantasy magic thinking is a very expensive folly when human lives are at stake.

Global hunger crisis deepens as world leaders slash aid amid record malnutrition and displacement

A record 295 million people faced acute food insecurity in 2024, as war, climate extremes, and economic shocks collided. With aid funding in freefall, UN officials warn the crisis is no longer just systemic—it is a failure of humanity.

America the unfree

Detention practices in a Trumpy post-9/11 age.

Trump-Musk Social Security fraud hunt yields chaos, not criminals

An internal document reveals that the Trump administration’s crackdown on supposed fraud in Social Security phone claims has identified just two questionable cases out of more than 110,000—prompting bipartisan outrage and warnings of a politically motivated attack on the program.