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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump delivers remarks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach

Politics Dec 16

How CEOs of major companies are trying to gain favor with Trump

By Geoff Bennett, Jackson Hudgins

Economy Jun 15

FILE PHOTO: Tesla's CEO Elon Musk in Beijing
How Elon Musk’s $44.9B Tesla pay package compares to other top U.S. CEO plans

Even though the median U.S. CEO pay package last year was nearly 200 times more than a worker in the middle of their company pay scales, Elon Musk’s record-setting Tesla compensation dwarfs them by comparison.

By Tom Krisher, Associated Press

Economy Jun 03

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CEOs got hefty pay raises in 2023 while inflation burdened American workers’ budgets

The typical compensation package for chief executives who run companies in the S&P 500 jumped nearly 13 percent last year, easily surpassing the gains for workers.

By Mae Anderson, Paul Harloff, Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press

Economy May 31

A man draws a money symbol as people take part in a protest called Make Amazon Pay, at the building where CEO Jeff Bezos lives in Manhattan, New York, U.S., November 27, 2020. Photo by Eduardo Munoz/REUTERS
CEOs got smaller raises. It would still take the average worker 2 lifetimes to make their annual pay

After ballooning for years, CEO pay growth is finally slowing. Still, that's unlikely to quell mounting criticism that CEO pay has become excessively high and the imbalance between company bosses and rank-and-file workers too wide.

By Alexandra Olson, Associated Press

Nation Dec 20

Illustration shows Twitter logo and Elon Musk silluete
Elon Musk tweets he’ll resign as Twitter CEO when he finds a replacement

Since taking over San Francisco-based Twitter in late October, Musk’s run as CEO has been marked by quickly issued rules and policies that have often been withdrawn or changed soon after being made public.

By Associated Press

Sep 12

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‘We’re at a tipping point’ on gun violence, says group of American CEOs

On Thursday, a number of American business leaders joined the clamor of voices demanding meaningful legislation to reduce gun violence. CEOs from 145 major U.S. companies sent a letter to senators urging them to expand background checks and implement a…

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Aug 27

Column: Companies don’t need permission from the Business Roundtable to be better corporate citizens

By Erik Gordon, The Conversation

A statement from a group of CEOs, no matter how powerful, won’t fundamentally change how they operate. But there’s one thing that will.

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Aug 20

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CEOs are saying they need to be more socially minded. Will anything change?

For decades, the driving goal for corporate America has been maximizing stockholders' profits. So what made nearly 200 of the country's most prominent companies issue a joint statement this week, representing a major philosophical shift? John Yang talks to Steven…

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Aug 22

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Why CEOs will still come to the table to work with Trump despite quitting councils

By PBS News Hour

President Trump has repeatedly positioned himself as the kind of leader who would have a unique connection with the corporate world. But several CEOS publicly broke with him in the past week after his remarks about the violence in Charlottesville.

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Jul 28

CEO pay down — to ‘only’ 271 times that of the typical worker

By Kristen Doerer

The CEOs at America's largest firms made an average of $15.6 million in 2016, according to a new report by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.

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