The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party
There’s just one element missing from these snapshots of America’s ostensibly spontaneous and leaderless populist uprising: the sugar daddies who...
Author: onepercenttakers
Former CEO: Executive Pay Is ‘A Fraud’
You can blame the stagnant economy on a “handful of women and men” who run the country’s largest companies. And...
Billionaires’ Crybaby Club: Someone Get These Whiners a Bottle!
Does being super-wealthy make you extra susceptible to self-pity today? That’s the only conclusion we can draw from an epidemic...
How Tennessee Politicians Killed Volkswagen Unionization
Right-wing groups may have successfully defeated a unionization bid at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tenn. manufacturing plant, but it wasn’t a clean...
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,...
CEO Pay 1,795-to-1 Multiple of Wages Skirts U.S. Law
Former Chief Executive Officer Ron Johnson, 54, of J.C. Penney Co. got a compensation package worth 1,795 times the average...
Fast Food CEO: Low-Paid Managers Prefer ‘Stature’ to Overtime Pay
So-called fast food “managers” who do much of the same work as non-managerial workers, but without being eligible for overtime...
Walmart: The Single Biggest Beneficiary of the Food Stamp Economy
In the series “The Secret Life of a Food Stamp,” Marketplace reporter Krissy Clark traces how big-box stores make billions...
U.S. Corporations Now Hold Over $2 Trillion in Untaxed Profits Overseas: Study
WASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) – Foreign profits held overseas by U.S. corporations to avoid taxes at home nearly doubled from...
