Executive Excess at Low-Wage Corporations
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View ArticleMusk’s Trillion-Dollar Fortune Is a Flashing Warning Light for Democracy
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View ArticleThe Corporate and Billionaire Opponents of San Francisco’s Overpaid Executive...
San Francisco voters will soon have a chance to weigh in on a proposed increase to the city’s Overpaid Executive Tax. This proposal would give large corporations with huge gaps between CEO and worker...
View ArticleTaking Aim at Overpaid CEOs
The espresso machine in Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol’s personal office in Newport Beach, California, retails for $14,000—almost as much as the $14,674 annual wage of the coffee giant’s median worker, a...
View ArticleSixteen Billionaires Who Made Their Fortunes Off the Backs of Low-Wage Workers
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View ArticleThese 20 Corporations Are Major Culprits in the Affordability Crisis
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View ArticleFederal Safety Net Cuts Are Hurting States. A ‘Bad Business Fee’ Could Help.
Working people — and the state and local governments who represent them — are being pushed to the brink by deep federal cuts to essential programs like Medicaid and SNAP. Those cuts didn’t happen in a...
View ArticleWhat Did Workers Have to Say in 2025?
Despite experiencing the harm of corporate greed and our collapsing social safety net firsthand, workers remain underrepresented in mainstream media. Here at Inequality.org we do our best to counteract...
View Article10 Inequality Victories of 2025
Ooph. What a year. We were tempted to skip our annual tradition of tallying up top inequality victories and pretend like 2025 never happened. Instead we decided that in dark times like these, lifting...
View ArticleMusk’s Trillion-Dollar Pay Package Isn’t the Only Bad Thing on the Tesla...
Elon Musk’s deployment of DOGE to gut federal agencies was so obviously self-serving it stunned much of the nation and even inspired the catchy “Hostile Government Takeover” song. Tesla’s annual...
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When Far-Right Voters Learn Wage Inequality Facts, Their Support for Policy...
Conventional wisdom claims that far-right voters are the least supportive of redistribution and the least likely to change their minds when faced with facts about inequality. But my recent study with...
View ArticleA New Ally Against Excessive CEO Pay: Pope Leo
In his first interview since becoming the leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV fielded a question about the polarization that is tearing societies apart around the world. A significant factor,...
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Meet the Low-Wage 100
The gap between CEO compensation and median worker pay at Starbucks hit 6,666 to 1 last year. In other words, to make as much money as their CEO made last year, typical baristas would’ve had to start...
View ArticleWhy America’s Top Corporate Execs Are Thanking Their Lucky Stars for Donald...
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View ArticleAt Wells Fargo, I Saw Firsthand How Excessive CEO Pay Harms Workers and...
Remember the 2016 “phony accounts” scandal at Wells Fargo? Executives relentlessly pressured employees to meet extreme sales quotas, leading them to create millions of fraudulent accounts without...
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Lawmakers Target Corporations Paying Executives More than Uncle Sam
Senator Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Greg Casar, and 14 other members of Congress recently sent letters to 35 companies that have been paying their top five executives more than they’re paying in federal...
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Hotel CEOs Prioritize Their Own Paychecks, Not Improvements for Their...
Labor disputes are continuing to rage between unionized hotel workers and the bosses at three major chains: Marriott, Hilton, and Hyatt. Over Labor Day weekend, more than 10,000 UNITE HERE members went...
View ArticleLow Wage Work Isn’t Just Bad for Employees — It Hurts Customers, Too
I’ve always felt that working in customer-facing jobs is my calling. I’m passionate about making people feel comfortable when they enter a business, be it a retail store or a restaurant. But it was...
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The Low-Wage Corporations That Blew Half a Trillion Dollars to Inflate CEO Pay
The Lowe’s home improvement store spent $43 billion on stock buybacks over the past five years. With that sum, the big box chain could’ve given each of its 285,000 employees a $30,000 bonus every year...
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Tax ‘Two-fers’ That Raise Revenue and Encourage Good Corporate Behavior
After the 2008 financial meltdown, the U.S. unemployment rate and median household income did not return to pre-crisis levels for many years. Since that national tragedy, Congress and regulators have...
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