Tag: wage gap
As global 1% seize economy’s gains, ‘unprecedented wage stagnation’ for everyone...
"With workers worldwide being left behind, we need to build an economy that works for everyone, not just the few at the top."
Can anything bring CEO pay back down to Earth?
If we want to reverse soaring income inequality, curbing CEO pay has to be on the agenda.
Thinking beyond Trump: Why we need a federal jobs guarantee
Full employment through a federal job guarantee makes sense – for workers, for the economy, for America.
160 Americans now control $2 trillion of wealth
These 160 Americans had a combined net worth of $1.7 trillion. In the last year, they have increased their net worth by $312 billion.
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.
New Evidence That Women Make Less Than Their Male Coworkers With...
Women can't escape unequal pay.
The Big Chill: How Big Money Is Buying Off Criticism of...
In Washington's "think-tank" study on inequality, they fail to mention how big corporations and Wall Street have weakened the nation's labor and antitrust laws. So whose side is Washington really on?
Who Polices the Pay Police?
Corporations have added a new level of “pay police” to oversee the platinum paychecks of top bosses. But even when the board runs this process, the chief’s pay keeps going up, up and away.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.