This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. There are, of course, two components to affordability: sellers’ prices and buyers’ incomes. For most ...

Spare a thought for your local Starbucks barista as they pour yet another pumpkin spice latte this fall. Starbucks’ new CEO Brian Niccol reportedly earned a compensation package worth up to $95.8 ...

The wage gap between CEOs and workers at the lowest-paying firms on the S&P 500 rose by almost 13% between 2019 and 2024, an analysis released Thursday shows, with CEO pay rising more than twice as ...

In 2024, CEOs at America’s leading companies saw pay increases that outpaced the wage growth of employees, widening pay disparities across the country and in Connecticut, according to a new report ...

GOP leaders say they support back pay Roughly 750,000 federal workers are expected to be furloughed during this shutdown, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis. More staffers will ...

Are you a Boeing worker? Fill out the form at the bottom of this article for information on joining a rank-and-file strike committee. The strike by more than 3,200 Boeing workers in Missouri and ...

Ten years ago, just months after announcing his presidential campaign, Donald Trump called sky-high CEO pay “disgraceful,” telling CBS’s Face the Nation in 2015: “You see these guys making enormous ...

Becca Kelly Slaughter, a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission, got her job back last Wednesday. She immediately requested a vote to restore the FTC’s “click to cancel” rule, which would make ...

At many major U.S. companies, the CEO earns far more than the average employee — but in some cases, the gap is jaw-dropping. A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies revealed that among the ...