Minimum Wage, Minimum Chance: On Being Nickel-and-Dimed in 2016
Feb 16, 2016 When presidential candidate Bernie Sanders talks about income inequality, and when other candidates speak about the minimum wage and food stamps, what are they really talking about?
Raising Taxes on Corporations That Pay Their CEOs Royally and Treat Their Workers Like Serfs
Apr 22, 2014 Until the 1980s, corporate CEOs were paid, on average, 30 times what their typical worker was paid. Since then, CEO pay has skyrocketed.
NYC: Where Bonuses Rise, and The Working Poor Still End Up Homeless
Mar 15, 2014 Bonuses on Wall Street jumped 15 percent in 2013, while record numbers of New Yorkers poured into homeless shelters.
Pay Disparity for Women Starts Early
Oct 24, 2012 Women who land jobs right out of college earn just 82 percent of what their male colleagues are paid after one year, the American Association of University Women reports.
NBA Cancels First Week of Preseason Games
Sep 24, 2011 The NBA on Friday announced the cancellation of 43 preseason games and postponed training camps amid a stubborn labor standoff between the players union and the league over salaries. (more)
High Salaries Ring a Bell
Mar 6, 2011 A hospital executive pulling down $875,000 a year? How about a water official collecting $600,000? Those are among the salaries contained in a new round of public compensation disclosures by the California state controller in the wake of the pay scandal in Bell.
Banking Regulation Team Pitches New Payment Rules
Dec 28, 2010 An international panel of banking regulators from 27 nations is aiming to crack down on outlandish pay packages for industry executives by proposing a new set of rules that call for more transparency and, wonder of wonders, some correlation between .
How Baseball Became America vs. the Damn Yankees
May 20, 2010 Baseball has always proceeded according to the law of the jungle with the Yankees as King Kong, but in the past even they never dominated financially as they do now.Cry Me a River
Apr 5, 2010 Let us stop to collectively mourn a new figure from The New York Times: Chief executives in the United States' largest publicly traded companies found that their compensation dropped 15 percent in 2009, hitting bourgeois rock bottom at a measly $9.53 million yearly average.
Big Bucks for GM Boss
Feb 20, 2010 It seems that the romantic notion of cutting back on executives' astronomical salaries, especially execs at corporations that benefited from government funding, hasn't exactly caught on like wildfire in the American auto business. Take General Motors, for example.
