Shed No Tears for CEOs with Sinking Share Prices
In today’s corporate pay environment, even a global pandemic can’t deny chief execs their windfalls
Executive Pay
Only Oversight of Oversight Will Keep Profiteers From Siphoning Stimulus Money Into Their Own Wallets
Just how much money is in the CARES Act? At $1 per second, it would take 60,000 years to hand it all out.
Why CEO Pay Belongs at the Center of the Coronavirus Bailout Debate
The fact that so many Americans are facing dire circumstances now is a direct result of the exploitation economy and we should take this opportunity to change it.
100 House Democrats Call for Cap on CEO-Worker Pay Gaps at Bailed-Out Firms
Meanwhile, Republicans have proposed pathetically weak executive pay restrictions for companies relying on taxpayer support.
How to Wage War, FDR-Style, on Our Pandemic
People fight harder, Franklin Roosevelt understood, when the rich don’t get richer.
How to Make the Airline Bailout Work for Workers, Not Just CEOs
The government should provide direct wage subsidies to airline workers while restricting CEO pay to no more than 50 times median wages.
Braggadocio in the White House, Carcinogens in Our Neighborhoods
In Trump America, science no match for ‘free market’ fundamentalists and CEOs chasing windfalls
California Debate Over CEO Pay Tax Foreshadows Federal Fight
Abigail Disney testified in support of a California state senate bill to tax large CEO-worker pay gaps before the committee voted to advance the proposal.
War Profiteering Is Real. We Need to End It.
CEOs of major military contractors enjoyed a big jump in the value of their personal stock holdings after the U.S. airstrike that killed an Iranian military leader.