| Jun 14, 2022 | RoundupThis week in OtherWords, Sam Pizzigati shares some astounding new IPS research on the growth of CEO pay at America’s lowest wage employers. On average, CEOs at these companies now take home more in one year than their average employees would be able to earn in...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecuritySomewhere at a theater near you, Top Gun: Maverick is serving up a feel-good drama about a plucky U.S. Navy pilot who dispatches some unnamed bad guys before he gets the girl. Meanwhile, a real-life drama is unfolding in Washington around the massive resources we put...
| | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyCEOs at America’s biggest low-wage employers now take home, on average, 670 times what their typical workers make. But we don’t just get unfairness when a boss can grab more in a year than a worker could make in over six centuries. We get bungling and inefficient...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThis op-ed was originally published on June 19, 2019. We’re reprinting it to mark Juneteenth in 2022. One day in late June, 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas. They carried some historic news: Legal slavery had ended some two and a half years ago...
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