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CEO Pay and the Great Recession
CEOs of the 50 firms that have laid off the most workers since the onset of the economic crisis took home 42 percent more pay in 2009 than their peers at S&P 500 firms, according to CEO Pay and the Great Recession, the 17th in a series of annual Executive Excess reports from the Institute for Policy Studies.
"Our findings illustrate the great unfairness of the Great Recession," says Sarah Anderson, lead author on the Institute study. "CEOs are squeezing workers to boost short-term profits and fatten their own paychecks."
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