Sarah Anderson
Sarah Anderson directs the Global Economy Project of the Institute for Policy Studies, and is a co-editor of Inequality.org. @Anderson_IPS
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Views Wednesday, January 08, 2020 Congress: War Profiteering Is Real. We Need to End It. The prospect of war with Iran is terrifying. Experts predict as many as a million people could die if the current tensions lead to a full-blown war. Millions more would become refugees across the Middle East, while working families across the U.S. would bear the brunt of our casualties. There is... Read more |
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Views Monday, January 06, 2020 Meet the Corporate War Profiteers Making a Killing on Trump's Attacks on Iran CEOs of major U.S. military contractors stand to reap huge windfalls from the escalation of conflict with Iran. This was evident in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. assassination of a top Iranian military official last week. As soon as the news reached financial markets, these companies’ share... Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 14, 2019 Danny Glover Supports Landmark Reparations Fund in Chicago Suburb Earlier this year, the actor Danny Glover joined author Ta-Nehisi Coates for a Capitol Hill hearing on slavery reparations. That was a historic milestone in the fight for a federal commission to study how America could best make amends for slavery. But as is the case on so many issues, local... Read more |
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Views Monday, December 09, 2019 Toys R Us Worker: Wall Street Billionaires Should Not Be Making Money By Putting People Out of Work For many years, Giovanna De La Rosa enjoyed working at Toys ‘R’ Us—especially during the holiday shopping season. “I loved bringing joy to families and to children,” she shared at a recent congressional hearing . “I watched so many of the local kids grow up over the years while shopping in our... Read more |
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Views Saturday, November 30, 2019 A Corporate Tax Even Republicans Should Love I moved away from my hometown of Litchfield, Minnesota, several decades ago, and since that time, my politics have veered to the left as those in my hometown have veered to the right. Donald Trump won my family's western Minnesota congressional district by over 30 percentage points . And yet, when... Read more |
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Views Thursday, November 14, 2019 Sanders, Lee, and Tlaib Lead Effort to Tax Huge CEO-Worker Pay Gaps A new congressional bill would deliver heftier IRS bills to corporations that overpay their top executives at the expense of their workers. Institute for Policy Studies experts have advocated for such policies since the 1990s, the decade CEO pay at big U.S. corporations began soaring into the... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Where Is 'Line Worker Barbie'? Mattel executives say they’re worried about girls developing “self-limiting beliefs,” resulting in a "dream gap" with boys. So the giant toymaker rolled out an extensive line of “ Career Dolls ,” including Barbie pilots, firefighters, and robotic engineers, to inspire its young patrons. But there’s... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 07, 2019 Paying the Boss 1,000 Times More Than a Worker Encourages Reckless Corporate Behavior Back in the 1960s and into the 1970s, few American corporate chief executives pocketed more than 40 or 50 times what they paid their workers. That divide looks quaint by today’s standards, but back then business analysts like the famed Peter Drucker considered even those gaps much too wide. Drucker... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 02, 2019 We’ve Waited Too Long for Corporations to Fix the CEO Pay Problem on Their Own I went on CNBC’s Squawk Box this week to talk about a new proposal from Senator Bernie Sanders to put tax penalties on corporations with extreme gaps between their CEO and worker pay. This is an issue I’ve been working on for many years. In fact, a dozen years ago, in August 2007, I had also... Read more |
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Views Friday, August 02, 2019 3 Bills to Rein in Executive Pay Here’s one sign of the unpopularity of overpaid corporate and banking executives: Shortly before heading home to face constituents during the summer recess, members of Congress introduced three bills to crack down on excessive compensation. Stop Wall Street Looting The new Stop Wall Street Looting... Read more |