Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. July 10, 2008. It's good to reward the best and the brightest, but when those rewards are too great they become incentives for bad, and dumb, behavior.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. May 22, 2008. Contemporary CEOs can't lose, mainly because they take the bulk of their pay in stock.
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch. February 7, 2008. Bill Gates, anti-Capitalist? Concerns about economic downturn dampen festivities in Davos, Switzerland.
Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. August 31, 2007. This year's Executive Excess 2007 report found that "top executives averaged $10.8 million in total compensation, which is 364 times the pay of the average American worker."
Barbara Ehrenreich, AlterNet. May 31, 2007. Recent findings shed new light on the increasingly unequal terrain of American society. The new "top" involves pay in the hundreds of millions, a private jet and a few acres of Nantucket. The new bottom is slavery.
Barbara Ehrenreich, The Progressive. March 23, 2007. Home Depot salesclerks get about $8-$10 an hour for lifting heavy objects and running around the floor all day with no tips while its departed CEO got $210 million bonus for sinking the value of the company's stock.
