How to Wage War, FDR-Style, on Our Pandemic
People fight harder, Franklin Roosevelt understood, when the rich don’t get richer.
Executive Pay
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.
The Threat of War Inflates Stock Holdings of Military Contractor CEOs
As long as the top executives of our privatized war economy can reap unlimited rewards, the profit motive for war in Iran — or anywhere — will persist.
McKinsey, ICE, and CEO Pay’s Most Obvious Contradiction
The consultants are coming — and they know just what the powerful want.
A Corporate Tax Even Republicans Should Love
Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and other congressional progressives want to tax companies that overpay their CEOs. Most Republicans would go even further.
Putting the Brakes on Corporate America’s Inequality Engine
Landmark new legislation before Congress links corporate taxes to the CEO-worker pay divide.