Archived Reports and Press Releases2001 Recovery Watchdog Website Critiques "Assistance for American Corporations Act" (11/8/01) Stimulus Bill Squanders Funds Needed for Crisis (10/24/01) Labor Day CEO Pay Report: Layoff Leaders Cushioned from Downturn (8/28/01) Rebate Rebellion: Coast to Coast, Taxpayers Pledge to Re-Direct Their Rebates (7/20/01) Rebate Rebellion: Tax Fairness Advocates To Use Bush Rebates to Block Bush Tax Cut (7/5/01) Estate Tax Repeal Opponents: "The Battle Isn't Over Yet" (6/5/01) ExxonMobil Shareholders Challenge CEO Pay Geyser (5/24/01) Senate Tax Cut Bill: "A Giant Step Towards Economic Apartheid" (5/21/01) AT&T Dials Wrong Number in Setting CEO Pay (5/21/01) Bipartisan Compromise Estate Tax Reform Bill Announced (5/10/01) Bill Gates, Sr., Marian Wright Edelman, Senator Conrad and Others Rally to Preserve Estate Tax (5/7/01) Household International Shareholders Oppose Predatory Lending (5/3/01) Raytheon's CEO Misses Target on Employee Satisfaction Goals (4/23/01) Resolution: FleetBoston CEO Must Share Both Rewards and Sacrifices (4/11/01) Shareholders Challenge Citigroup on Social Responsibility (4/11/01) New Report Indicates High Levels of CEO Pay Foreshadow Poor Stock Performance (4/5/01) Small Business Owners, Entrepreneurs Join Wealthiest Americans in Call to Preserve Estate Tax Bill Gates Sr. testifies before Senate Finance Committee (3/15/01) 400 Millionaires, Small Business Owners Join Estate Tax Supporters (2/27/01) Over 300 More Wealthy People Sign On To Preserve Estate Tax (2/19/01) Bill Gates, Sr., George Soros, Steven Rockefeller, 100 Others Oppose Estate Tax Repeal (2/14/01 2000 Responsible Wealth Member Martin Rothenberg Speaks At White House to Support President’s Veto of Estate Tax Repeal (8/31/00) Wealthy Families Oppose Estate Tax Repeal (8/30/00) CEO/Worker Pay Gap: The Neglected Campaign Issue (8/30/00) Annual Executive Excess CEO pay study reports that CEO pay jumped 535% in the 1990s. The report also looks at CEO pay among internet companies and the growing pay gap between the public and private sectors. United for a Fair Economy Brings "Economic Apartheid" Message as Convener of Shadow Convention "Poverty and Wealth Gap Day" (8/10/00) August 14 Program Challenges Parties' Neglect of Real Issues Shareholders Urge CEO to Share in Sacrifices and Ask AT&T to Disclose Corporate Welfare Received from Government (5/22/00) Shareholders Urge Real Elections for Insider-Dominated AIG Board of Directors (5/11/00) Shareholders Urge Honeywell to Link CEO, Worker Pay (5/1/00) Shareholders Want Disclosure of GE’s Political Spending (4/24/00) Shareholders: Huffy's Downsizing CEO Should Downsize His Own Pay (4/24/00) Shareholders Pressure Raytheon to Freeze CEO Pay (4/24/00) Wealthy Taxpayers To Give Away Tax Breaks (4/13/00) Over $3 million donated since 1998 in "Tax Fairness Pledge" As CEO Pay Rockets Higher, Shareholders Urge Companies to Share the Rewards More Widely (4/5/00) Paying a Living Wage Is Good For Business, Employers Say (3/29/00) Disney Shareholders Protest Exclusion of Resolution (2/18/00) 1999 Divided Decade: Economic Disparity at the Century's Turn (12/15/99) The Racial Wealth Gap: Left Out of the Boom (9/30/99) A Decade of Executive Excess: The 1990s (9/1/99) Annual UFE report reveals that CEO pay soared between 1990 and 1998; US CEOs are paid far more than CEOs abroad. Religious Congregations Move Past Hand-outs to Challenge Growing Inequality (6/3/99)
1999 Responsible Wealth Shareholder Resolution Press Releases:
Dow Breaks 10,000 But Typical Household Wealth Down Since 1983 (3/29/99) Responsible Wealth's Tax Pledge 1999 (3/10/99) 1998 Executive Excess 98: CEOs Gain from Massive Downsizing (4/23/98) CEOs Reap Millions From Massive Lay-Offs (4/9/98) Responsible Wealth's Tax Pledge (4/8/88) 1997 Born on Third Base -- 1997 Study of the Forbes 400 (10/97) Executive Excess: CEOs Gain from Massive Downsizing (5/97) 1996 Born on Third Base -- 1996 Study of the Forbes 400 (10/96) The Growing Wage Gap (4/96) | 
