Executive pay is an insult to working families
Memorial Day is in the rear-view mirror, but here’s one more thing to remember: American chief executives make too darn...
Memorial Day is in the rear-view mirror, but here’s one more thing to remember: American chief executives make too darn...
Sarah Anderson, director of the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, recently asked in a speech at...
WASHINGTON — Early Friday morning, House Republicans voted down a measure that would have discouraged the government from giving contracts...
A new report by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz for the Roosevelt Institute suggests that paying our fair share...
The “charitable” wing of David Koch’s Americans for Prosperity has dropped nearly $900,000 on ads to boost Wisconsin Governor Scott...
On May 22, The Campaign for America’s Future gave a conference on The New Populist Majority. The keynote speaker was...
While many companies doled out seven-figure raises for their top brass last year, they were far more stingy with the...
A federal judge who stopped Wisconsin’s criminal investigation of spending during the 2011 and 2012 recall elections regularly attends all-expense...
In recent years there has been a regular drum beat of news stories warning us about the enormous unfunded liabilities...
The median CEO pay package hit $10.5 million last year, according to the Associated Press, cracking eight figures for the...
Washington – The political attack ad that ran recently in Arizona had some familiar hallmarks of the genre, including a...
At the ‘New Populism Conference’ hosted by the Campaign for America’s Future on Thursday, a number of progressive thinkers and...
As fast food workers strike in 150 U.S. cities Thursday and solidarity protests spring up in 30 other countries, it’s...
In a time of slack economic growth and high unemployment around the country, Kansas lawmakers thought they had the solution:...
John Nichols speaks live from the Kansas City Public Library about the toxic influence of money and the media election...
Long before anyone knew the name Thomas Piketty, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston was plumbing the hidden depths of...
OAK BROOK, Ill. — Police arrested a rabbi and others who took part in a protest on the campus of...
Corporate tax-dodging deals known as inversions, in which a U.S. multinational shifts its tax domicile to a lower-tax country, would...
Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median household pay is dropping, adjusted for inflation. A smaller share of working-age...
In a nation that has long operated on the principle that an “American Dream” is available to anyone willing to...
WASHINGTON — Charles and David Koch are the unofficial standard-bearers of a new generation of billionaires, willing to spend immense...
At the very end of last year, Shaun Goodman left a bar in Olympia, Washington in his Ferrari and led...
His relentless coverage of Wall Street malfeasance turned him into one of the most influential journalists of his generation, but...
Holy axis of evil, Batman! A dramatic fossil fuel threefer is brewing in Chicago, as mountains of the carbon-saturated fuel...
The data on widening inequality are remarkably and disturbingly clear. The Congressional Budget Office has found that between 1979 and...
A majority of the Senate voted to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour recently, yet the bill failed...
On Thursday, the fast-food strikes that have been spreading around the country are going global. Workers at restaurants like Burger...
Mitt Romney’s 47 percent video has had two important, lasting contributions to American politics. The first is that it kept...
Fossil fuel divestment campaigns are working. They’re working so well that Big Coal is scared and striking back, frantically trying...
In honor of Mother’s Day, we thought it would be appropriate to point out a gift millions of moms would...
Organized labor has been under attack for decades, with devastating results for the middle class. Wages have not kept up...
Hundreds of children too young to buy cigarettes are working 60 hours a week on tobacco farms across the South,...
A beginning elementary school teacher in a small district in California makes around $40,000 per year. That’s 2 or 3...
Coke has recently come under fire for what it pays its top executives. The overlapping roles that board members play...
Senator Carl Levin said he is writing legislation to block U.S. companies from shifting their legal addresses overseas to lower...
Institutional Investor’s latest “rich list” in its Alpha magazine, its survey of the 25 highest-paid hedge fund managers, is out.
When a city is forced to spend more on Wall Street fees than on basic public services, it is the...
The United States offers three kinds of subsidies to tycoons with private jets: accelerated tax write-offs, avoidance of personal taxes...
The Koch brothers’ main political arm intends to spend more than $125 million this year on an aggressive ground, air...
When you think of the term “public pension fund,” you probably imagine hyper-cautious investment strategies kept in check by no-nonsense...
A new study that will appear in the fall 2014 issue of Perspectives on Politics concludes that the United States...
The salary of McDonald’s CEO Donald Thompson should be slashed by the company’s Board of Directors due to the chain’s...
Studies have shown a significant correlation between monies spent and the outcome of elections. While there are still instances where...
A good many Americans now know the high-finance games that JPMorgan Chase and other big banks like to play —...
Environmentalists are planning to take billionaires Charles and David Koch to court, alleging the brothers’ companies are responsible for polluting...
The chase after ever cheaper sites for manufacturing is causing rising inequality, low-wage misery, and unsafe workplaces in many parts...