Wages make up a large share of income for most U.S. working families, lost wage growth meant sluggish income growth. There was one group where wage growth, and income growth, was substantial: the top 1%, whose wages skyrocketed 182% since 1979
Starbucks takes the prize for the most obscene corporate pay disparities of 2024. But jaw-dropping gaps are the norm among America’s leading low-wage corporations.
Trump rewards the real offshorers with trillions in tax cuts.
But it has soared 1,085% since 1978 compared with a 24% rise in typical workers’ pay
The presumptive Democratic nominee can appeal to the working class by slapping a higher tax rate on corporations that lavish money on their chief executives but don’t adequately pay their workers.
Increased militancy after pandemic sacrifices and tighter labor market contributed to impressive contract deals in the last year.
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Execs make hundreds of millions of dollars, yet 87% of Sag actors don’t make the $26,470 a year to qualify for health insurance
Pay levels for top U.S. corporate execs have lost any connection to organizational rationality.
CEOs were paid 399 times as much as a typical worker in 2021
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