SEC To Require Transparency On Pay Gap Between CEOs, Average Employees

The Securities and Exchange Commission will soon follow through with an executive pay transparency requirement in the Dodd-Frank law.

Martin Michaels
By Martin Michaels

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) could soon require Fortune 500 companies to publish CEO salaries compared against the wage of an average worker. Proponents claim that it’s a matter of transparency that would help illustrate the large, growing wage gap. Independent estimates by the AFL-CIO show that the average top corporate CEOs earned

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May Day: Income Disparity Grows As Corporations Spend Millions To Cover It Up

Workers across the nation and around the world take to the streets to highlight income disparities between workers and the business elite.

Trisha Marczak
By Trisha Marczak

As workers across the nation and around the world take to the streets to highlight income disparities between workers and the business elite, lobbyists continue to carry out successful campaigns aimed at protecting corporations from disclosing the numbers behind the disparity. In 2010, it seemed the lobbying arm of the corporate world failed when

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