Executive Pay

If our leaders want to be taken seriously when they rant about runaway CEO pay, they need to embrace solutions that’ll have a real impact.

With Americans putting the finishing touches on their taxes, it’s a good time to look at the taxes highly profitable U.S. corporations don’t pay. This article was originally published at Common...

We could raise wages for millions of workers to $15 an hour, using the bonus money from Wall Street, and still have plenty of money leftover. Wall Street bonuses dipped...

From warmaking and tax avoidance to consumer gouging and environmental destruction, the candidates for 2015 Hypocrite of the Year truly earned their spot on this list. By Paul Buchheit [caption...

100 CEOs have as much in retirement assets as 41 percent of all American families. By Scott Klinger and Sarah Anderson  This report, co-published by the Institute for Policy Studies...

Both libertarians and liberals can agree on this: much of what passes for capitalism today is anything but. By Sheila Suess Kennedy [caption id="attachment_9693" align="alignright" width="240"] Credit: thinkbynumbers.org[/caption] In our...

This report reveals how our CEO pay system rewards executives for deepening the global climate crisis. By Sarah Anderson, Sam Pizzigati, and Chuck Collins This report reveals how our CEO...

Let's rein in Wall Street pay before the high-flying gamblers drive us back to the brink.

  Regulators of the Great Depression era could teach their modern-day counterparts a few lessons in how to get things done. Consider, for example, how fast the Securities and Exchange...