by Dave Johnson | Sep 18, 2013 | Blog
The 2010 Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act included a provision requiring publicly traded companies to report the "pay ratio" -- the ratio of CEO compensation to worker compensation in that company. Corporate lobbying groups have been fight...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 17, 2013 | Blog
The City of Richmond, California is fighting back against Wall Street's mortgage fraud and foreclosure criminality. It's one of a handful of municipalities that is using eminent domain to stop foreclosure abuse, and it's being very smart about it. We were one of three...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 17, 2013 | Blog
Today, September 17, marks the second anniversary of the Occupy movement. When that movement is mentioned at all in Washington, which is rarely, the tone is dismissive. It didn’t have coherent goals, someone may say. The movement needed an electoral strategy, someone...
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 16, 2013 | Blog
The exceedingly comfortable who sit in America's richest 1 percent have regained the outrageously outsized share of the nation's income they held just before the economy cratered five years ago. The future just keeps getting brighter for Americans with unique...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 16, 2013 | Blog
While our government is laying off hundreds and hundreds of thousands and cutting services in the name of cutting deficits, a new report exposes that taxpayers are handing more than $1 trillion a year to the wealthiest. DC Focused On Deficits Not Jobs Instead of...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 11, 2013 | Blog
"A world of radical inequality doesn’t work." — United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard While the nation discusses how to respond to the use of chemical weapons by Syria, America's economic woes continue. The middle class and below is squeezed by wage stagnation;...
