by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 18, 2010 | Blog
The lackluster financial reform bill now nearing a floor vote in the U.S. Senate includes a surprising provision that could help reframe and revitalize the struggle against outrageously excessive CEO pay. Nearly six decades ago, at the height of the Great Depression,...
by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 11, 2010 | Blog
Windfall rewards give CEOs an incentive to put worker lives at risk. To see all workers safe, our most recent mining tragedy reminds us, maybe we need to end those windfalls. In a perverse sort of way, CEOs like Don Blankenship, the chief executive at Massey Energy,...
by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 5, 2010 | Blog
Don’t be fooled by all the poor-mouthing around the latest annual executive pay surveys. With Washington dithering on CEO pay reform, chief execs still have plenty of reason to celebrate. The media heavy hitters have once again begun their annual spring deluge of...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 28, 2010 | Blog
The health care reform legislation President Obama signed into law last week takes a little-noticed but precedent-setting swipe at executive pay excess. The health care reform package that President Obama signed into law last week will give many millions of Americans...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 22, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Local government elected leaders are claiming we have no alternative to king-size budget cuts. But their numbers don’t add up. You won’t find many suburbs in the United States more affluent than the burbs that ring Washington, D.C. In fact, six of the ten...
