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"We're tired of CEOs raking in more and more, leaving our communities with less and less."
Maria Elena Letona
Neighbor to Neighbor Executive Director
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The average real annual income increase for America's poorest 50 percent between 1978 and 2015. Top 1 percent incomes? Up 5.7 percent annually during that same span.
$286m
The total earnings of Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf, 2011-2016. The bank now faces $185 million in fines for the consumer fraud that took place on Stumpf's watch.
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Number of stories in Manhattan's 432 Park Avenue luxury residential needle tower. Lowest price of a condo in the tower: $17 million.