Big Oil Spends Millions Lobbying for Its Subsidies
A new chart released by Stop Fooling California reveals that the oil industry, including the Western States Petroleum Association, Chevron,...
Corporations / Lobbyists / Politics
by onepercenttakers · Published April 11, 2014 · Last modified September 7, 2014
A new chart released by Stop Fooling California reveals that the oil industry, including the Western States Petroleum Association, Chevron,...
CEOs / Inequality / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published April 11, 2014 · Last modified September 7, 2014
Former Chief Executive Officer Ron Johnson, 54, of J.C. Penney Co. got a compensation package worth 1,795 times the average...
CEOs / Inequality / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published April 11, 2014 · Last modified September 7, 2014
So-called fast food “managers” who do much of the same work as non-managerial workers, but without being eligible for overtime...
In the series “The Secret Life of a Food Stamp,” Marketplace reporter Krissy Clark traces how big-box stores make billions...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 11, 2014 · Last modified September 7, 2014
WASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) – Foreign profits held overseas by U.S. corporations to avoid taxes at home nearly doubled from...
"Ronald Reagan's theory was really 'trickle down' economics...and renamed 'supply side.' Cut tax rates for the wealthy; everyone else will benefit. As Reagan's budget director David Stockman confided at the time, the supply-side rhetoric 'was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.'" —The Gipper's Economy. To see how the Trickle Down Con was sold to the public click here.