Sarah Anderson
Sarah Anderson directs the Global Economy Project of the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive multi-issue think tank, in Washington DC.
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Views Wednesday, May 23, 2018 Big Pay Gaps Are Bad for Business Mattel is one of the largest toy-making companies on earth. Turns out it’s one of the biggest manufacturers of income inequality, too. Last year, the Barbie doll manufacturer paid its CEO nearly 5,000 times as much as its median worker. This stunning revelation is the result of a new regulation... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, May 16, 2018 Rep. Keith Ellison Takes a Hard Look at New CEO Pay Ratio Data Big Business fought hard to kill a new regulation requiring corporations to disclose the gap between their CEO and median worker pay. For eight years after the regulation became law, corporate lobby groups fought to repeal, gut, or at least delay it. But thanks to an outpouring of support by... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 11, 2018 A New Poor People’s Campaign Is Gearing Up to Launch on Mother's Day "I am not speaking about the poor. I am not speaking for the poor. I am the poor.” Claudia De la Cruz was speaking at an April 10 press briefing in Washington, D.C. on behalf of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival . Inspired by a similar 1968 initiative led by Dr. Martin... Read more |
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Views Saturday, March 31, 2018 The Mosquito Gap OK, I admit it, I’m a freeloader. My neighbors asked if I’d go in on a mosquito control service last spring, and I turned them down. I was skeptical about whether the “eco-friendly” service would actually work. But I was mostly taken aback by the cost: $750 for the season. Several neighbors went... Read more |
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Views Friday, January 05, 2018 RIP Marc Raskin, Who Connected the Dots Between Inequality and War Institute for Policy Studies Co-founder Marcus Raskin will be remembered, among many other noteworthy achievements, for coining the term “national security state.” In congressional testimony in 1967, he used the phrase to describe the complex web of war institutions he feared would drive continuous... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, December 06, 2017 The GOP Tax Plan Is Igniting a Movement for a Moral Economy If you’re expecting a gift card from your boss as an end-of-year bonus, enjoy it this year because you probably won’t get one in 2018. The Senate tax bill would ban such rewards. Why? Because Republican lawmakers are determined to prevent ordinary workers from pocketing a $25 or $50 gift card... Read more |
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Views Friday, October 13, 2017 Taxing the Wealthy to Pay for Universal Home Care Maine is developing a well-deserved reputation for cutting-edge progressive ballot initiatives. In 2016, voters approved proposals to raise the state’s minimum wage, raise taxes on the wealthy to fund education, introduce ranked choice voting, and legalize marijuana. The key force behind the state’... Read more |
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Views Sunday, August 20, 2017 The Activists Who Helped Shut Down Trump’s CEO Councils The CEOs who made up two White House advisory councils have fled like rats on a sinking ship. Their exodus — a dramatic rebuke of Donald Trump — came within 48 hours of the incendiary August 15 press conference where the President praised some of the participants of last week’s white supremacist... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 17, 2017 The Alt-Right and the 1% When President Donald Trump let loose at his Tuesday press conference, equating anti-racism protesters with neo-Nazis, it was a big hit with the men who’d taken part in the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville. But Trump wasn’t just playing to the kind of racist crowd that marches around... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 31, 2017 Rising Angst Among Defenders of Overpaid CEOs Overpaid CEOs enjoyed a sweet victory in June when the House of Representatives took action to protect them from having to disclose how much more money they make than their workers. But the celebration didn’t last long. The odds of the Senate taking similar action any time soon were always long... Read more |