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.
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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.
Sanders, Lee, and Tlaib Lead Effort to Tax Huge CEO-Worker Pay Gaps
The House-Senate companion bill addresses corporate America’s extreme disparities, giving firms an incentive to lift up the bottom and bring down the top of their pay scales.
Where is ‘Line Worker Barbie’?
CEO-worker pay gaps are the clearest proof that corporations like Mattel and many others don't respect their employees.
Paying the Boss 1,000 Times More Than a Worker Encourages Corporate Recklessness
At the city, state, and federal levels, momentum is building to tax corporations with extreme gaps between CEO and worker pay.