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UFE in the News

Estate Tax Repeal Emerges As Pivotal Budget Issue CongressDaily, 3/8/04

Forum Laments Concentration of Wealth Waltham, MA Daily News Tribune, 2/20/04

Brown at 50: The Education of a Nation MSNBC.com, 2/9/04

Bush Insults King's Legacy Again Chicago Sun-Times, 1/20/04

Bill Gates' Father Argues Case to Keep Estate Tax Baton Rouge Advocate, 12/11/03

State a Loser in Estate Tax Repeal Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 12/2/03

Taxes Are What We Pay for Our Privileged Way of Life Chicago Sun-Times, 11/29/03

Q & A: William Gates Sr. on the Estate Tax Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 10/26/03

Analyst: Charities to Suffer if Tax Estate Tax Nullified Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 10/25/03

Bill Gates's Dad Advocates a Sensible Estate Tax Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 10/23/03

Study: Estate Tax Repeal Could Hurt Charities Lancaster, Ohio Eagle-Gazette, 10/22/03

Activists Fear Big Loss in Maine if Estate Tax is Repealed Associated Press, 10/20/03

Estate Tax Fight Gets Breath of New Life, Seattle Times, 10/17/03

After Massive Layoffs, Companies Award Execs with Big Pay Boosts Los Angeles Times / Tribune Media Services, 9/2/03

The Sour Taste of Executive Pay CNN.com, 8/27/03

Job-cutting CEOs Cashing In, Study Finds Boston Herald, 8/26/03

Signing Over the Tax Rebate to Charity WBUR Radio, 8/12/03

White Affirmative Action CommonDreams.org, 6/25/03, Op-ed by Betsy Leondar-Wright

House Votes to Repeal Estate Tax - Bill Not Likely to Pass in the Senate Washington Post, 6/18/03

"Taking on the Company" NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, 6/10/03. Follow UFE member Ann Sink to the 2003 Bristol-Myers Squibb annual meeting, where she presents her resolution on excessive CEO pay.

Floating Lincoln Namesake Becomes Ironic Twist of Financial Disparity, by Jerry Large, Seattle Times, 5/7/03

Defense CEOs Are Big Winners of Iraq War, by Derrick Z. Jackson, Boston Globe, 4/30/03

Sharing the Wealth? Cover story, Washington Post Magazine, 4/13/03

Why Bush's Tax Cut Won't Help the Economy David Martin, Chris Hartman and Ben Robinson, United for a Fair Economy, Alternet, 4/7/03

A Fair Payment for War William H. Gates Sr. and Chuck Collins, Washington Post, 3/25/03

Bill Gates Sr. Brings Estate Tax Crusade To Farmers Union Congress Daily, 3/3/03

Bill Gates Sr. and Chuck Collins on the Estate Tax Marketplace Radio, 2/4/03

Repeal of Estate Tax Morally Bankrupt Sean Gonsalves, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1/21/03

Who Will Pay? E.J. Dionne, Washington Post, 1/17/03

Soros Warns on Estate Tax Repeal Financial Times, 1/14/03

Bill Gates Sr. Supports Estate Tax USA Today, 1/13/03

Long Live the Estate Tax! The Nation, 1/9/03

Paul Volcker Blasts Idea of Permanently Repealing Estate Tax Wall Street Journal, 1/2/03

System Lifts, Shields CEO Pay Chicago Tribune, 9/15/02

The (Fat) Wages of Scandal Business Week, 9/9/02

Report: Scandal CEOs Made More CBS MarketWatch, 8/26/02

There's Nothing New About Greed Miami Herald, 8/1/02

A 12-Step Program for Defective Companies Santa Fe New Mexican, 7/16/02

Titans of the Enron Economy The Nation, 7/5/02

CEO Blues National Public Radio, 6/21/02

Responsible Wealth Trumps Irresponsible Estate Tax Repeal The Nation Online, 6/13/02

Tax the Wealthy: Why America Needs the Estate Tax American Prospect, June 2002

Working to Retire Overcompensation Los Angeles Times, 6/2/02

Group's Report Highlights Bad Corporate Habits of Top Companies Kansas City Star, 4/12/02

Pendulum Has Swung to Workers Kansas City Star, 2/7/02 (Fallout from Enron scandal)

Tax Relief is Un-American, Wealthy Say CBS MarketWatch, 10/25/01 Registration required. Or, click here.

Networks are Missing Some Big Stories (Madison Capital-Times, 10/25/01) (House stimulus bill)

Florida Farm Workers Target Fast Food Giant Inter Press Service, 9/4/01

A Post-Labor Day Look at Pay Gaps and Wage Wars Christian Science Monitor, 9/4/01

Study: CEOs Still Getting Big Pay Associated Press, 8/28/01

CEO Pay 531 Times That of Workers Chicago Tribune, 8/28/01

The Ideas Industry: Singing the Praises of Work Washington Post, 8/28/01

The Right Economic Medicine? Newsweek, 8/6/01 (Mentions RejecttheRebate.com)

Tax Cut Foes Have Gift for Protest Hartford Courant, 7/20/01

Chuck Collins Offers a Solution for People Who Do Not Want to Keep Their Tax Rebate Marketplace Radio, 7/17/01

Exec-Worker Gap in Pay Gets Wider Denver Post, 7/8/01

Balancing the Payscale Raleigh News and Observer, 6/10/01

Glad To Pay Estate Tax for Children's Trust Fund Houston Chronicle, 5/30/01

A Tax Break's Unfortunate Legacy Washington Post, 5/25/01 (Estate Tax)

When It Pays To Be Badly Paid Times of London, 5/17/01

Protests at Household's Shareholder Meeting The American Banker, 5/9/01

The Big Executive Rip-Off: While CEOs Get Big Bucks Shareholders' Returns Sink New York Post, 4/29/01

Fleet Aims to Focus on Customers Boston Globe, 4/18/01 (Shareholder Resolution)

Still High in a Slowdown, Executive Pay Draws Looks Christian Science Monitor, 4/16/01

Focus on Farms Masks Estate Tax Confusion New York Times, 4/8/01

Success of Firms, CEO Pay Studied Boston Globe, 4/6/01

Highest-paid CEOs Typically Don't Deliver, Watchdog Group Says Kansas City Star, 4/6/01

Gates Sr. Spars with GOP over Estate Tax Washington Post, 3/16/01

Bill Gates Sr. Debates Pete du Pont on Estate Tax Repeal Slate.com, 3/12/01

The Estate Tax: Mend It, Don't End It Business Week, 3/5/01

Taxes: Most Pay With Pride USA Today, 3/1/01

Behind Growing Case for an Estate Tax - Of Some Kind Christian Science Monitor, 2/26/01

Why America's Richest Love Taxes Observer of London, 2/25/01

Against Self Interest San Francisco Chronicle Editorial, 2/22/01

Estate Tax is All About Viewpoint Kansas City Star, 2/22/01

Even Billionaires Aren't Buying Estate Tax Hype USA Today editorial, 2/20/01

Estate Tax -- Where the Rich Draw the Line San Francisco Chronicle, 2/20/01

Billionaire Backlash Newsweek, 2/19/01 (Estate Tax)

The Estate Tax: What's At Stake Bill Gates, Sr., Washington Post, 2/16/01

Defending the Estate Tax New York Times editorial, 2/16/01

Estate Tax Repeal Seen Hurting State Boston Globe, 2/16/01

Drive to Kill Estate Taxes Loses Steam (LA Times, 2/15/01)

Dozens of the Wealthy Join to Fight Estate Tax Repeal New York Times, 2/14/01

UFE: Best Place to Bone Up On Fighting the Power Boston Phoenix, 11/3/00

Everything You Know About the New Economy is Wrong Salon.com, 10/26/00

US Economy Undervalues Workers, Overvalues CEOs Christian Science Monitor, 9/5/00

CEO Pay Rises Much Faster Than Workers’, Study Says Scripps Howard News Service, 8/31/00

CEO Salary Gap Widens CNNfn, 8/30/00

Bipartisan Coalition to Stage Shadow Conventions This Summer Washington Post, 6/22/00