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Dedicated
to the notion
that our world would be considerably more
caring, prosperous,
and democratic if we narrowed the vast gap
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- Shareholders as Boo Birds: The Anger Runneth Over
- How much higher can executive pay rise? Corporate shareholders, corporate boards in the United States are learning to their chagrin, may no longer have the patience to wait and see. Our story starts at last month's Citigroup annual meeting.
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- Campaign Consulting for Fun and Grand Fortune
- America's top Presidential campaign consultants are making millions off the political contributions of average Americans — and doing their best to keep their fellow millionaires happy. We have the details..
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- Corporate America's Executive Pay-for-Performance Charade
- The latest round of annual CEO pay reports reveal that corporations are still shelling out big bucks to execs who perform poorly. But that's not the prime reason CEO pay should have us horrified.. We have more.
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- John McCain’s Superstar CEO Apostle of Innovation
- Former Hewlett-Packard chief exec Carly Fiorina, the top voice on economic policy for the McCain campaign, doesn't represent everything that's wrong in Corporate America's executive suites. But she comes close. We explain.
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more from the Too Much archive . . .
- The dirt behind the hedges: a look at America's top income-earners . . . Barack Obama's go-to-guy on economics . . . The story of the New Deal's most unsung victory . . . How concentrated wealth is fouling higher education . . . Do Wall Street wheeler-dealers ever create jobs? . . . Subprimes, people of color, and power suits . . .A Harvard prof's call for a “maximum wage” . . . Why we need a campaign on “extreme inequality”: a PowerPoint presentation . . . Inequality and extinctions . . . War, taxes, and our awesomely affluent . . . Why
not tax the rich like Ike?
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Stat of the Week
The Democratic Party Presidential primary battle is about to shift to Oregon. Here's one topic just begging for some serious campaign discussion: our ever-widening income gap. Between 2002 and 2006, the latest year with stats, the richest 1 percent of Oregon households saw their incomes jump an average $299,000 after inflation. The incomes of Oregon's middle-income households, notes the Oregon Center on Public Policy, rose $72. |
Quote
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“You’d never know it from watching television news, much less reading the questions asked of our politicians, but over the last quarter century the portion of the national income accruing to the richest 1 percent of Americans has doubled. The share going to the richest one-tenth of 1 percent has tripled, and the share going to the richest one-hundredth of 1 percent has quadrupled.”
Eric Alterman and George Zornick, The Boys in the Bubble, Center for American Progress
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