What You Have to Earn to Buy a Home in Biggest U.S. Cities

Steve Rosenfeld / AlterNet Nov 21, 2017 Most Americans cannot afford to live in progressive coastal epicenters. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Minimum Wage, Minimum Chance: On Being Nickel-and-Dimed in 2016

By Peter Van Buren / TomDispatch Feb 16, 2016 When presidential candidate Bernie Sanders talks about income inequality, and when other candidates speak about the minimum wage and food stamps, what are they really talking about? Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Raising Taxes on Corporations That Pay Their CEOs Royally and Treat Their Workers Like Serfs

Robert Reich / Truthdig Apr 22, 2014 Until the 1980s, corporate CEOs were paid, on average, 30 times what their typical worker was paid. Since then, CEO pay has skyrocketed. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

NYC: Where Bonuses Rise, and The Working Poor Still End Up Homeless

Donald Kaufman / Truthdig Mar 15, 2014 Bonuses on Wall Street jumped 15 percent in 2013, while record numbers of New Yorkers poured into homeless shelters. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Pay Disparity for Women Starts Early

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Oct 24, 2012 Women who land jobs right out of college earn just 82 percent of what their male colleagues are paid after one year, the American Association of University Women reports. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

NBA Cancels First Week of Preseason Games

Staff / Truthdig Sep 24, 2011 The NBA on Friday announced the cancellation of 43 preseason games and postponed training camps amid a stubborn labor standoff between the players union and the league over salaries. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

High Salaries Ring a Bell

Staff / Truthdig Mar 6, 2011 A hospital executive pulling down $875,000 a year? How about a water official collecting $600,000? Those are among the salaries contained in a new round of public compensation disclosures by the California state controller in the wake of the pay scandal in Bell. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Banking Regulation Team Pitches New Payment Rules

Staff / Truthdig Dec 28, 2010 An international panel of banking regulators from 27 nations is aiming to crack down on outlandish pay packages for industry executives by proposing a new set of rules that call for more transparency and, wonder of wonders, some correlation between . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

How Baseball Became America vs. the Damn Yankees

Mark Heisler / Truthdig May 20, 2010 Baseball has always proceeded according to the law of the jungle with the Yankees as King Kong, but in the past even they never dominated financially as they do now. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Cry Me a River

Staff / Truthdig Apr 5, 2010 Let us stop to collectively mourn a new figure from The New York Times: Chief executives in the United States' largest publicly traded companies found that their compensation dropped 15 percent in 2009, hitting bourgeois rock bottom at a measly $9.53 million yearly average. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Big Bucks for GM Boss

Staff / Truthdig Feb 20, 2010 It seems that the romantic notion of cutting back on executives' astronomical salaries, especially execs at corporations that benefited from government funding, hasn't exactly caught on like wildfire in the American auto business. Take General Motors, for example. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Obama Orders Salary Cuts

Staff / Truthdig Oct 22, 2009 In a move to quell public outrage, President Obama has ordered the government's "pay czar" to cut by 90 percent the multimillion-dollar salaries that executives of seven bank and auto companies are receiving, citing the fact that these firms are entirely dependent on U.S. taxpayer money for financial survival. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )