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Economics Research Sources
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CEO Pay
Data:
AFL-CIO's Paywatch CEO Pay Database
Click on a company name to find the CEO's total compensation, as reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission. For the CEOs of companies not listed here, this site includes instructions for finding the data in the company's SEC proxy statement.
Worldwide Total Remuneration 2001-02
International CEO pay data from Towers Perrin.
Analysis:
Executive Excess 2003 (August, 2003)
CEOs at companies with the largest layoffs, most underfunded pensions and biggest tax breaks were rewarded with bigger paychecks.
More Bucks for the Bang: CEO Pay at Top Defense Contractors (April, 2003) Median CEO pay at the 37 largest defense contractors rose 79 percent from 2001 to 2002, while overall CEO pay climbed only 6 percent.
Executive Excess 2002 (August, 2002)
CEOs of firms under investigation for accounting practices earn 70% more than average CEOs.
Executive Excess 2001 (August, 2001)
CEO pay soared 571% in the 1990s.
Income Inequality
Data:
Bureau of the Census Income by quintile, race and ethnicity, age, sex, etc.
Analysis:
New Data Show Widest Income Gap Since 1929
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has released a new analysis of Congressional Budget Office data that found:
- Income for the top 1% skyrocketed 201% between 1979 and 2000.
- Meanwhile, income for the middle 20% rose only 15% and income for the bottom 20% rose only 9%.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
This site contains a variety of studies analyzing Census income data.
Raise the Floor
Book packed with info on low wages and solutions to the problem.
Health and Income Equity
Maintained by the International Health Program, University of Washington & Health Alliance International, this web site demonstrates and tries to explain the association between income inequality and health.
Minimum Wage
Raise the Floor
Book packed with info on low wages and solutions to the problem.
Coalition on Human Needs
Background information and data in support of raising the minimum wage from $5.15 to $6.15 an hour.
Poverty
Data: Bureau of the Census
Poverty rates and thresholds for various family sizes.
Analysis: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
This site contains a variety of studies analyzing Census poverty data.
Racial Wealth Gap
Analysis:
Federal Reserve: Racial Wealth Gap Has Grown by Betsy Leondar-Wright (UFE, March 2003)
Taxes
Data:
Analysis:
UFE Fights the "Shrink, Shift and Shaft" Budget and Tax Agenda
Read the op-ed "Shrink, Shift and Shaft" by UFE program director Chuck Collins.
The radical right's budget and tax agenda:
- Shrink government to nothing more than a "Watchtower State," limited to military, police and property-rights protection.
- Shift the tax burden off investments and onto wages, off of federal progressive taxation and onto state and local taxation that hit low- and middle-income people hardest.
- Shaft people who depend on government safety nets or investment in equality of opportunity.
Anti-tax fact-twisters claim 80% of the tax relief given to the rich goes to job-creating small businesses. Don’t believe it. (FactCheck.org, 12/19/03) More...
Top 1% Gets Tax Cuts, The Rest of Us Get to Pay for Them
A new study from Citizens for Tax Justice finds that the value of tax cuts for all but the wealthiest Americans will be far outweighed by the additional national debt incurred as a result of mounting federal deficits.
Also check out: The Tax Cut Con by Paul Krugman (New York Times Magazine, Sept. 14, 2003) - A highly readable description of the "shadow agenda" to de-fund government services by way of massive tax breaks for the wealthy.
2003 Bush Tax Cut Unfair, Won't Help Economy (UFE, June 2003)
Trickle Down Economics: Four Reasons Why It Just Doesn't Work (UFE, July 2003)
Unions
Data:
UnionStats.com Private and public sector union membership, coverage, and density estimates.
Wealth Gap
Data:
Survey of Consumer Finances
Conducted every three years by the Federal Reserve Board. Covers the distribution of wealth among other topics.
Analysis:
Recent Trends in Wealth Ownership, 1983-1998 by Edward N. Wolff (Jerome Levy Economics Institute, April 2000.
Divided Decade: Economic Disparity at Century's Turn (UFE, December 1999)
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