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Top CEOs Make 271 Times More Than The Average American
By John Light/BillMoyers.com
In 2016, CEOs at America's largest firms made, on average, 271 times more than the average US worker. Fifty years ago, that ratio was 20-to-1.
The CEO-to-worker pay ratio, calculated annually by the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank, has narrowed slightly in recent years; in 2014, it was 299-to-1. But it has grown by an order of magnitude since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started keeping data in the 1960s, and has even doubled many times over since the late 1980s, when it was 59-to-1.
Posted on July 25, 2017
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'Obscene': 70 Top Healthcare CEOs Raked in $9.8 Billion Since 2010
By Jake Johnson/Common Dreams
"The central healthcare initiative of the Dem Party is a policy that effectively subsidizes the pay of these execs."Posted on July 25, 2017
Top CEOs Make 271 Times More Than The Average American
By John Light/BillMoyers.com
In the early 1990s, CEO pay started climbing; CEOs began making hundreds of times what the average American worker made, and continue to do so today.Posted on July 25, 2017
NYT Trump Interview Makes Waves, But Did Reporters Go Too Easy?
By Julia Conley/Common Dreams
Hint: Yes.Posted on July 24, 2017
Explaining The Rise In Hate Crimes Against Muslims In The U.S.
By Brian Levin/The Conversation
Are pols to blame? (Hint: Yes.)Posted on July 20, 2017
Not Just For The Poor: The Crucial Role Of Medicaid In America's Health Care System
By Simon Haeder/The Conversation
Both the American Health Care Act and the Trump budget would be truly devastating.Posted on July 17, 2017
Reminder: Among Wealthiest Nations, U.S. Healthcare System Comes In Dead Last
By Jake Johnson/Common Dreams
We spend more by far - with far worse outcomes. We suck.Posted on July 17, 2017
What We Know - And Don't Know - About Hate Crimes In America
By Rachel Glickhouse/ProPublica
There are a few questions for which answers continue to elude us: How many hate crimes happen each year, and why is the record keeping so inadequate?Posted on July 14, 2017
Destroying Mosul To Save It: Possible U.S.-Backed War Crimes In Iraq Exposed
By Julia Conley/Common Dreams
"The horrors that the people of Mosul have witnessed and the disregard for human life by all parties to this conflict must not go unpunished."Posted on July 12, 2017
Who Has Your Back 2017
By The Electronic Frontier Foundation
Not Amazon, for one.Posted on July 11, 2017
WTF, Democrats
By Jake Johnson/Common Dreams
"Literally the stupidest fucking idea I've ever seen."Posted on July 5, 2017
A Wisconsin Republican Looks Back With Regret At Voter ID And Redistricting Fights
By Topher Sanders/ProPublica
I asked my colleagues to show me three specific examples of voter fraud, and all I got was a bunch of hand-wringing and drama-filled speeches about the "buses of Democrats being brought up from Chicago." I said, "Show me where that was ever prosecuted or even charges brought." It was crickets. Nobody could give me an answer.Posted on July 5, 2017
The Cynical Opposition Of Some Democrats To Universal Health Care
By Joshua Cho/Common Dreams
Obama's challenge has already been met by almost every other industrialized country, where universal health care plans like single-payer and national health service systems cover everyone at far lower costs than our current privatized system.Posted on July 3, 2017
Elite Public Schools That Rely On Entry Exams Fail The Diversity Test
By Jake Murray/The Conversation
When it comes to student diversity, elite high schools leave much to be desired.Posted on July 7, 2017
Bruce Bartlett: Why I'm Not A Democrat
'I Am Part Of The Reason Why Democrats Have Not Been Successful In The Trump Era'
The dictatorship of the idiocracy drove me out of the GOP. And yet . . .Posted on June 28, 2017
Psychopath CEOs Destroy Value
By James Saft/Reuters
A new UK study finds that companies with leaders who show "psychopathic characteristics" destroy shareholder value, tending to have poor future returns on equity.Posted on June 26, 2017
'The Sky Didn't Fall': Study On Seattle $15 Minimum Wage Proves Critics Wrong
By Jake Johnson/Common Dreams
"These findings are consistent with the lion's share of rigorous academic minimum wage research studies."Posted on June 22, 2017
How U.S. Gun Control Compares To The Rest Of The World
By John Donohue/The Conversation
I've been researching gun violence - and what can be done to prevent it - in the U.S. for 25 years. The fact is that if the NRA claim that guns helped reduce crime were true, the U.S. would have the lowest homicide rate among industrialized nations instead of the highest one - and by a wide margin.Posted on June 21, 2017
UN Investigator: U.S. Coalition Airstrikes Causing 'Staggering Loss of Life' In Syria
By Andrea Germanos/Common Dreams
"We have been killing a lot of civilians in and around Raqqa for quite some time now, yet these incidents are rarely admitted by the coalition and there is almost no interest from international media."Posted on June 20, 2017
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