CEO pay at top US companies accelerates at fastest pace in four years Median package for S&P 500 bosses was $19mn in 2024, pay advisory calculates

In the UK CEO pay at listed companies has reached record levels for the 3rd year in a row.

In the US levels of CEO pay are accelerating.

Tackling excessive pay and pay inequality is vital to improving living standards and creating a fairer economy.
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19.08.2025 11:41 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Public services that we all rely on are struggling. Cuts to our social security are targeting the disabled. All whilst inequality grows.

It doesn't have to be this way.

Tax wealth, not work. Tax the super rich.

Our incoming Executive Director @faizashaheen.bsky.social on #PoliticsLive:

19.06.2025 13:02 — 👍 16    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 0

Breaking the Jeff Bezos model of new technology 7pm Wed 18 Jun | Hilary Cottam, Faiza Shaheen, Jack Stilgoe | Free event at the LSE Festival: Visions for the Future | Ticket required

This will be a great event! Come along if you want to hear @faizashaheen.bsky.social @hilarycottam.bsky.social and @jackstilgoe.bsky.social discuss Elon Musk, AI, and the future of technological innovation. www.lse.ac.uk/Events/LSE-F...

02.04.2025 16:12 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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"After 20 years of working on inequality, I can confidently say that class, and indeed class war, has never been more evident in my lifetime."

@faizashaheen.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social calls for class consciousness to reform the UK's politics.

Read more 👉https://ow.ly/P77T50VkRL5

19.03.2025 16:16 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

We’re out and about across the UK today to tell MPs and constituents that our country is missing out on £460m a week without a wealth tax.
Rachel Reeves doesn’t need to make cuts, instead she can tax the richest people like us to build a better Britain.
#TaxOurWealth

14.03.2025 11:33 — 👍 636    🔁 346    💬 19    📌 46

Is growing inequality a problem for international development, what is driving it and what can be done about it? The world is becoming increasingly unequal. In the last four years the world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes from £321 billion to £688 billion, while the wealth of the poorest...

Join the brilliant @faizashaheen.bsky.social and @maxlawsontin.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social for the next DLD Conversation chaired by Ha-Joon Chang on the very timely topic of:

Inequality - how it impacts development and what can be done.

📌March 10th 5.30-7pm
✏️Registration: bit.ly/3XhnK6i

24.02.2025 17:05 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Cannot wait for this discussion at LSE next week, do join us

26.02.2025 14:35 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Join us on March 10th at 5.30pm for a our next DLD conversation on how inequality affects development and what can be done about it - with the brilliant
@faizashaheen.bsky.social, @maxlawsontin.bsky.social and Ha-Joon Chang.

Register here: soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

17.02.2025 15:07 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Speaker announcement!

We are delighted to have @zarahsultana.bsky.social joining Aditya Chakrabortty, @claremacg.bsky.social , Mike Savage and Faiza Shaheen on 4 February as they ask: does social class still matter in Britain in the 21st century?

Register here: https://buff.ly/3PEvlaP

22.01.2025 15:56 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Extreme wealth is extreme control. Never has this been so clear. Well we don’t have to settle for it. In our letter to Davos leaders, 370+ millionaires & billionaires say we must draw the line. Protect ppl, planet, & democracy: rein in extreme wealth & tax us, the super rich.

22.01.2025 06:08 — 👍 448    🔁 171    💬 11    📌 10